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<DIV> I certainly am not a computer wizard, but here's what I know about
this computer virus thing. Someone please correct me if I mis-speak.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After seeing this worm virus appear in a msg sent
by Towney and then myself (ref: Blue water sailing article-huge file and the
bronze castings), I then got an email from my father in Dallas. He caught the
same virus weeks before from one of his antique motorcycle groups' servers. He
suggested I go to this web site and read up on the "kak.html" worm
virus.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The web site is:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html">http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is part of the Norton Anti-virus website. Very
interesting. George appears to be correct when he suggests setting your email
and browser they do not automatically read scripts and then execute programs
(html or otherwise.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You can do this by going into options under your
browser and deactivating the automatic execution of Java, ActiveX, etc scripts.
Your email may also have an options folder that allows this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, to check if you have acquired this virus, you
should click on START, while in Windows, then choose, FIND, and look for the
following files on your hard drive. Look for KAK or KAK.html. There were a total
of three or four files hidden on my hard drive that were part of this virus. My
version of Norton AntiVirus did not find them in its own independent search, but
my version is quite old. Delete these files when you find them. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then at the above sight, I went to the Microsoft
updates site and downloaded a few updates for Microsoft Windows 95/98, that
supposedly prevent the automatic loading of these types of worm viruses. It
seems to be working so far. I have not caught the KAK virus again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just some thoughts, maybe someone knows
better,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe #499</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"One Less Traveled"</FONT></DIV>
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