Happy99.exe Virus again!

[Dick Blaney]

I just got one of the Happy 99 worms from WA8ZRZ.  It was time stamped at
5:45PM, subject "Re:Heath Collector's Book".  If anyone knows him, they
should tell him.
73 de
Dick, WB8MHE
wb8mhe at bright.net

-----Original Message-----
From: James D. Mayfield <kb9bnr at REVEALED.NET>
To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 7:28 PM
Subject: Happy99.exe Virus again!


>        Hi guys, well one of you have the happy virus on your computer. It
was
>sent to me today, by one of the list members. I sent a private e-mail to
>him, so that he knows to clean up his system. Now I want everyone to pay
>attention, unless your are to poor, to do so.
>
>Most all e-mail programs have a feature that will allow you to limit the
>size of any e-mail that anyone sends to you. Most all e-mails are less than
>5k long, so if you set your download limit to 7k, that is enough that it
>will not hamper the downloading of most e-mails. Now if someone sends you
>anything larger than 7k your computer will let you know and ask if you wish
>the entire message to be downloaded, you can answer yes or no. As in the
>case of the happy99.exe virus that was sent out to us all today it's 10k, I
>got the first 7k and then a message telling me that a file larger than 7k
>was sent, it also told me the name of the file. (happy99.exe) I told my
>system to dump it. The moral to the story is, by so doing my system is
>clean! is yours?
>
>Look at it this way, you don't leave you house unlocked when you leave do
>you? why? because you don't want anyone that has no business in your house
>in your house! so why are so many of you leaving your computers wide open
>to attack? Most of you are because you did not know you could limit your
>download size. Now you do know it so please do so, and lets end this stupid
>happy99.exe virus crap, and get on to radios...
>
>73 Dave
>
>*********************************************
>Dave Mayfield KB9BNR
>Personal Web Page
>http://home.revealed.net/qste/bnr/index.html
>
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