I've been getting a lot of email sent to me from the Klez virus lately....

This one is really insidious. It falsifies the "from" address in the email.... What it does is when it infects a computer, it uses one of the addresses in the address book, and uses that as the "from" address. So the person it seems to be "from" is not necessarily the one infected, it just means that their email address was in the address book of the person infected....

Any advice from the experts here on how we can all deal with this?

I'm essentially immune from infection by email viruses, but that's because I use an "old-style" email program - Pine - on a Unix account I use specially for email. Viruses are essentially targeted at Windows, so if you stay away from reading your email on a Windows machine, you are probably safe. However, the solution I use is a bit of a "techie"-type solution which is not easy for everyone to implement (though it's truly "bullet-proof").... What are some simpler and easier to use solutions?

- Dien Rice


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