Lately | May 16, 2002

Lately, in Corinna...

May 16, 2002

Here are the first signs of this summer's activity at the Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund site in Corinna. Looking like two dinosaurs, these mobile crushers were delivered to the site yesterday. They arrived on flatbed trailers. From the trailers they were driven to these locations using hand-held remote controls, like a remote control car.

Another Klez Email Virus Warning

The Klez email virus is still spreading. I've received at least one copy of it every day for two weeks. It's a sneaky one. The message and the name of the attachment in the email have been different every time. Below, on the right, is a copy of the version that came today.

Subject: Worm Klez.E immunity
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:16:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: ramphil <ramphil @ msn.com>
To: ken @ cattailpress.com

Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by corrupting your files.
Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can't detect or clean it.
We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus.
You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC.
NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it.
If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'.
If you have any question,please mail to me.

It's the worst yet. A great example of human engineering.

This is a fake warning. The file attached to this message was named sg.bat. It is not an immunity tool, it is the virus. If you double click to run it, you will be infected. Be suspicious when you see poor grammar, strange word choices and typing errors in the message.

Remember, practice safe computing. Never open any email attachments unless the sender has previously arranged to send it to you and told you specifically what the filename will be. Particularly, do not open attachments that end in any of these extensions: .BAT .EXE .PIF or .SCR. It is the last three letters of the attachment filename that count. See the May 6 entry for more information.