At 07:20 PM 1/28/99 -0500, Jim Wilcox wrote
Notwithstanding that I deleted the happy.exe and did not open it, Norton
AntiVirus detected it in my Eudora "trash" file and the Norton Protected files
(all the above in Win98)., and It took a bit of time to get rid of it. Norton
called it "happy99.worm." Norton Antivirus files dated 1-21-99 found it.
Point is, even if you deleted it, make sure that it didn't get into a protected
file somewhere. I don't know what it was supposed to do - I didn't want to
find out!
>Believe it or not, I found that I had a virus that sends itself in an email
>to everyone I emailed. It even created a list of people it had sent itself
>to. To find out more about it look at the following links:
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/235662.asp
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3652/SKA.HTM
>
>It had only sent itself to three places from my computer, one of which was
>the Linux hams list. Do not run the Happy99.exe file or you will get it
>too. Keep in mind that McAfee Viruscan did not find it for me.
>
>73's
>Jim
>
>Jim Wilcox
>KE4IHI
>
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At 07:20 PM 1/28/99 -0500, Jim Wilcox wrote
Notwithstanding that I deleted the happy.exe and did not open it, Norton
AntiVirus detected it in my Eudora "trash" file and the Norton
Protected files (all the above in Win98)., and It took a bit of time to
get rid of it. Norton called it "happy99.worm."
Norton Antivirus files dated 1-21-99 found it. Point is, even if
you deleted it, make sure that it didn't get into a protected file
somewhere. I don't know what it was supposed to do - I didn't want
to find out!
>Believe it or not, I found that I had a virus that sends itself in an
email
>to everyone I emailed. It even created a list of people it had
sent itself
>to. To find out more about it look at the following
links:
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/235662.asp
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3652/SKA.HTM
>
>It had only sent itself to three places from my computer, one of
which was
>the Linux hams list. Do not run the Happy99.exe file or you
will get it
>too. Keep in mind that McAfee Viruscan did not find it for
me.
>
>73's
>Jim
>
>Jim Wilcox
>KE4IHI
>
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