We’ve seen the Melissa virus. It came and went.
We’ve seen the Sircam virus. It came and went.
We’ve seen the Nimda virus. It came and went.
We’ve seen the Code Blue virus. It came and went.
We’ve seen the Klez virus. It came and…
IT’S STILL FUCKING HERE!!!
Most viruses, it seems, go through a relatively short life cycle. It all starts when some assclown who can’t seem to find anything better to do with his two hands writes a virus and puts it out on the Internet. A few unsuspecting victims are caught off guard, the media puts out a notice, the folks at Norton, McAfee, etc. update their virus definitions and then everyone who keeps their anti-virus software up to date is protected while a strain of virus-laden emails circulate the Internet, needlessly occupying bandwidth. After such activity peaks over a few weeks’ time, such viruses tend to die off and are hardly seen again.
WHY THE FUCK HASN’T THIS HAPPENED YET WITH THE GODDAMN KLEZ VIRUS?!!!
My Norton antivirus does a good job keeping this shit out of my email, but goddammit, it still pisses me off that several months later I am STILL seeing Klez-infected emails coming to me. Just today I have received TEN such emails! This is a record. I am bound to get a few more at the rate things are going before the night is through.
I have tried to set up Outlook to filter out known Klez subject lines (“a nice game”, “a very funny website”, etc.), but it’s about as impossible as trying to reliably filter out spam via subject headers (hell, I’d almost rather receive spam than all this Klez shit!). I am sick, SICK, SICK– fucking SICK!!! of hearing my email alert sounding, only to find out that it’s another fucking Klez email! I can’t even get excited over hearing the alert anymore because 9 times out of 10, if it isn’t a spam, then it’s probably a Klez email. :rolleyes:
Are they just picking on me, or is everyone else still having to contend with this Klez virus? Personally, I’d like to find the asshole who started this virus and hang him by his nuts. I’m sure he already has his own circle in hell reserved for him.