At 07:43 AM 3/3/99 -0800, Barry Lee Brisco so eloquently stated:
>>Hey:
>>
>>I strongly urge everybody to update your virus detection
>>programs. This morning on one list (moderated) I got three
>>copies of the Happy99 virus. Norton caught them. It will
>>destroy a lot of lists.
>
>
>Absolutely. This virus is an insidious little bugger that, once ensconced
>on your system, seems to covertly send out emails with a copy of itself as
>an attachment, without your knowing about it? 2 weeks ago I saw the
>attachment "happy99.exe" coming in from a web client in Singapore in an
>otherwise blank message. I didn't open it, just trashed it. I never open
>file attachments I'm not expecting, and this one was particularly
>suspicious. Then a few days later, another client in Singapore sent me the
>same thing, the same way! My wife got one as well from a _different_ person
>in Singapore, but her Norton AV caught it (clearly it is spreading like
>wildfire in Singapore). Of course, I don't think this virus would even run
>on my Mac.
>
Yep. That's the way it works. A blank message with another one. It attaches
itself
to outgoing e-mail. There was an article in the Tech Tools section of the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 28) which gives the details of and they
refer to a site with instructions
on how to rid you system of it.
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3652/ska.htm>
The worm just destroyed one discussion list, as members fled en masse.
George
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