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    1. [BROWN] KAK Virus
    2. Pilgrim
    3. Hi There, I belong to MANY, MANY e-mail lists. I get about 200 pieces of mail a day. This morning my mother detected the KAK worm in mail I sent to her. I check my files and there the nasty thing was. I had no clue, except that I had been getting some odd errors when I turned on the computer each day. I had just been monkeying around with files, so I figured I'd goofed something up. The KAK file was dated 3 days ago. I don't know if that is the date it was sent or when it was opened or when it began it's nasty business in my e-mail. I had sent my folks e-mail yesterday, but they don't think their protector found anything. I have had to reboot my entire system. It's taken me the entire day to save my files and it will take me much of tomorrow to get things back to normal. I just wanted you to know that I picked this worm up somewhere. You might want to check for files that are called KAK. You don't have to open an attachment to get this bug. It just happens and you don't even know it. I purchased a virus detector BEFORE I came back on. I got new mail and the nasty virus was on two pieces of new mail. I'm glad I bought the protector, or I'd have it again! Sincerely, Sandie

    01/28/2001 05:43:59