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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread KLEZ Alert! #93724 01/29/2003 5:52 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... I just received an e-mail with an .exe attachment (an obvious virus red flag) that was caught by my McAfee...it's the KLEZ virus. Here's the mailer: from: t_bone_102 subject: Pour la ville de Toronto, province of DO NOT OPEN THIS E-MAIL! This means someone who has me in their address book must have the KLEZ gestating in their system and it's starting to launch. So I would advise eveyone here who has my home address to do a virus scan immediately just to be safe...the KLEZ is a nasty one to get rid of once you get it (as Boby once pointed out to us from his own experience). Oh, and a technical question: Why does the virus scan always stall or slow-down on the .CAB files? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: slow-down #93725 01/29/2003 5:57 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass because they're huge? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: slow-down #93726 01/29/2003 6:09 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Oh, okay...so the .CAB files hold a lot more data the other files...I didn't know that...thanks, tsuwm! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: slow-down #93727 01/29/2003 6:54 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Bean old hand Bean old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 They're zipped up bits and pieces of your OS (= operating system, = Windoze in your case). Just think of compacting all your clothing for a three-month trip into, say, a purse, and then digging through to find the dirty socks to leave them at home. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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