"Joel R. Daniel,CBSE" wrote:
>
> dkeith wrote:
>
> > I made the very bad mistake of opening an attachment from a newsgroups
> > post the other day. The attachment was an executable file called
> > HAPPY99.exe. I thought it was from one of the regular list members but
> > it wasn't. I opened to a graphic of fireworks and said season greetings
> > or something like that - it seemed pretty benign at first, but later I
> > saw that every time I sent out an email it attached itself to the email,
> > and I guess if anyone else opened it this process would continue. I
> > found that it had stored the HAPPY99.EXE file on my desk top so I put it
> > in the recycle bin. That stopped the actual file from being attached to
> > my email, but outgoing mail continued to say there was an attachment on
> > the mail, and I guess it said the attachment was an executable file
> > because now I can't send mail to quite a few servers that probably have
> > some kind of screening out of messages with .exe files. Does anyone
> > know how I can change whatever is causing my mail to appear to have this
> > attachment.... Many thanks..... David Keith
>
> NORTON ANTIVIRUS
It happened to me but I got over it. It turns out that happy.exe renames
wsock32.dll as wsock32.ska and places a virus file that it names
wsock32.dll. If you don't have Norton antivirus do the following.
Search for and delete files ska.exe and ska.dll which are created by the
virus. Then change directory to Windows\System. Rename wsock32.dll (this
would be the one the virus put in) and rename it wsock32.old. Then find
and rename wsock32.ska (this was the original good .dll file renamed by
the virus) and rename it wsock32.dll. When everything is working as it
should delete wsock32.old. This worked for me. Hope it does for you.
