Anyone get a weird (WORM?) email from UCSD?

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It's an "Automatic Reply" email. I think this is really weird because I haven't sent any emails to UCSD recently.

Sender: [email protected]
Subject: Automatic reply

within the email, i found this:

•••quote:•••<FONT>Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerousby corrupting your files.<br>
Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV softwarecan't detect or clean it.<br>
We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus.<br>
You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC.<br>
NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitormaybe cry when you run it.<br>••••You think this is the alternate email to Dr. Resnik's? :wink:

 

[time quaker]

Klez actually works by sending an email to people on the infected computer's address book BUT the address line of the email will be another email address from somewhere in that computer system (previous emails, address book, etc.). If you check the headers of the email, you will see that this email probably originated elsewhere.

 

[still waiting]

That email virus already hit my office (the Klez worm). It took me all day to get rid of it. Basically it emails everyone in your address book a "virus email" once it's in your computer. The virus email will have a random subject and some text. The virus only affects people who use Microsoft Outlook and have Internet Explorer 5.5 or below. The message from UCSD you just received (about the .Klez virus) is actually one of the virus emails (you'll notice that the text is misspelled and it uses poor English.) It looks like the admissions office got the worm as well and is sending out virus emails. If you use Microsoft Outlook, and your computer starts acting weird I would go to <a href="http://www.symantec.com" target="_blank">www.symantec.com</a> and download the free virus removal tool there. (the verbage in the email about the tool not working, etc. is totally bogus.) Good luck and sorry if I got confusing. 😛