At 09:12 PM 3/11/99 EST, Cheyanne wrote: >Someone sent me the Happy99 worm. It's an email attachment - you open it, >load it and it has some pretty fireworks. You think "how sweet!". But the >little beast then attaches itself to every email you send. If you haven't >seen it, ignore this. But if you have an empty email from me with an >attachment DO NOT OPEN IT! Just delete it unread. If this is too late, and >you've seen the fireworks, you can find out how to kill it from Symantec: >http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html >I'm really sorry to have been an unconscious vector for this little >blighter.
Thanks for the warning. Unfortunately, Happy99 is not a hoax. Fortunately, we don't pass attachments around on this mailing list, so Mantovano subscribers are NOT AT RISK FROM THIS SOURCE, even though at least one of our members had the infection. This is because, under ordinary circumstances, you can only get a virus from running a program (which comes as an attachment), not from reading a piece of email.* So, don't panic, you didn't get a virus from Mantovano, and you won't as long as members follow our no-attachments rule. Having said that, this is probably a good time to update your antivirus software if you haven't done so recently, and a good time to buy an antivirus program (Norton, McAffee, what have you) if you don't already own one. Assuming, that is, that you value your time and the documents (papers, articles, databases, dissertations, books) you create on your computer... David Wilson-Okamura Listowner, Mantovano * Exceptions to this rule are cropping up on the horizon as email clients like Outlook acquire the ability to run VBA programs, but to my knowledge (and I do keep up on these things) we're not they're yet; Happy99 is not, in any case, an Outlook virus. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org/chaucer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaucer: an annotated guide to online resources ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
