~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~~~!~~~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~ Esto lo acabo de leer en el sitio de CNET. PANG http://www.download.com/pc/ed/powerd/0,358,0,00.html?st.dl.fd.ag.powerd Happy99 Cleaner From: Craig Schmugar Version: 2.0 Date: March 8, 1999 File size: 716K Downloads: 7,602 License: freeware Download now! Power Downloader usually enjoys getting email from his faithful flock, but lately he's begun noticing a disturbing trend. Some of his correspondents are sending a second, empty email message to him with an attachment called "Happy99.exe." Thanks to the red flag he received from his antivirus software the first time this happened, our cautious crusader was able to do a little research before opening the mysterious file. Lo and behold, Power discovered that he'd stumbled across one of the latest worms to crawl its way across the Net. The Happy99 file looks benign enough; launch it and you'll get a little window with some animated fireworks. Neat--but once it's in your system, Happy99 will send copies of itself to anyone you send an email to. Not a nice way to treat your friends, eh? (Power found out a whole lot more about the Happy99 worm right here.) Here's where Happy99 Cleaner comes in. This 717K application won't protect your system from the Happy99 worm. However, it can clean the pesky little bugger from your PC. Just launch the program and hit the Clean Now button; Happy99 Cleaner will then scan your hard drive for the worm and eliminate it, just like that. It will also give you a list of everyone you've ticked off by sending them infected email. There are no settings to tweak, no fancy interfaces, and no progress bars in Happy99 Cleaner, but it's hard to argue with a utility that does the job with no nonsense--and no price tag, to boot. -----Original Message----- From: Enrique Chacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 1999 05:30 PM Subject: Re: Fwd : Virus de Verdad Espero que este programa no sea el famoso virus, yo lo borre por si las moscas. Si es asi no tiene nada de gracioso. El punto de mi mensaje era advertir sobre el peligro de estos programas, no pasarlos. Aqui les anexo la informacion transmitida por el servicio de sistemas de mi universidad Subject: Please help stop HAPPY99 from spreading Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Virus Warning The Happy99 trojan virus is making its way around campus. This site has a good explanation of what it is and how to get rid of it. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3652/SKA.HTM Plus; For disinfection/detection software look to Product Sales Room 302 G.S.B. for the F-PROT diskette (version 3.04a) or Dr.Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit(7.90), or visit; <ftp://ftp.srv.ualberta.ca/pub/virus/extra>extra (place extra.drv in your Toolkit directory) or http://www.ualberta.ca/~nmartin/pub/extra.drv/ The latest version of F-prot is available for download from; http://www.ualberta.ca/~nmartin/pub/ for FP-304a.EXE (f-prot and f-macrow) ALSO; VIREX 5.9.1 for the MAC is available at Product Sales. An AUTOSTART trojan has made it onto music CDs and some shrink-wrapped software. Don't be caught without some form of Anti-Viral protection! At 07:21 PM 05/03/1999 -0500, Gonzalo Ortiz Nunez wrote: >Feliz 1999!!! > >Saludos, > >. >PD: just kidding! > >Attachment Converted: "C:\NETSURF\EUDORA\ATTACH\Happy99.exe" > ************************************ * ENRIQUE CHACON ARIAS * Education Policy Studies, U of A * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Edmonton, AB CANADA ********************************
