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    1. Fw: KAK Virus- URGENT!!
    2. alethea.starfleet
    3. Please forward this message to as many people as possible. Do this whether you have the virus or not. Click on Start then Find then Files & Folders, do a find on kak on the C: drive. If there are any files with kak as part of the name they will be listed. Look for kak.html and kak.hta and simply highlight them and press delete. For the registery click on Start, then Run, type regedit press enter. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click on the + open the folder Go to SOFTWARE and click on the + Go to MICROSOFT and click on the + Go to WINDOWS and click on the + Go to CURRENTVERSION and click on the + Go to RUN, look on the righthand side of the screen for cAgOu If it's there, highlight it and press delete. You have to then find autoexec.bat. Delete autoexec.bat and rename ae.kak as autoexec.bat (only do this if there is an icon called ae.kak- usually next to it) To reset your signature file, in Outlook Express go into the TOOLS then Options then Signatures. Check for a signature file called kak, if there is one delete it. You should carry this out on your computer whether you know that you have the virus or not. This virus gets into your computer via a hole in Outlook express, in order to stop this from happening you should log onto www.microsoft.com/ie/ and update your outlook express and internet explorer. I hope that everyone takes the time to do this because I was e-mailed the virus without knowing and my virus checker did not detect it. Thanks, Alethea.

    06/16/2000 08:05:02