Happy99.exe Virus again!

[Rick Parent]

I've already e-mailed him (as I'm sure others have.....). I pointed him to the
Symantic (Norton) web page.

Rick Parent,  KA1GBJ
rparent at sky.net

Dick Blaney wrote:

> 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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