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Alan Jacobs, Editor Transactional Analysis Journal Internet, http://www.tajnet.org e-mail: editor@TAJnet.org From: "Krysia Jacobs" kjacobs@bravenewweb.com To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Subject: Virus advisory (not a joke) Date: Wed, Feb 24, 1999, 11:33 PM This message is not a joke, but it is also not any cause for panic. I am sending it out because I recently saw the HAPPY99 virus sent to me in some e-mails and suspect that it may be spreading in the TA community. The virus is not very dangerous but it is quite persistent It comes as an attachment in an email message, named HAPPY99.EXE . The message subject can be anything. And the message appears otherwise empty (no other text). Technically, this is not a virus but a worm. It does nothing bad to your computer but tries to propagate itself. It modifies several Windows programs involved in sending e-mail so that next time you send someone an e-mail message, it will also send a second message to that same person. That second message has the same subject as the original and an attachment containing a replica of itself: happy99.exe . There have been rumors that it also sends all the e-mail addresses it can find on your PC to someone on the Internet, but this last part may not be true. THERE IS NO DANGER IN READING THE E-MAIL MESSAGE, but IF YOU SAVE THE HAPPY99.EXE FILE IN YOUR SYSTEM AND RUN IT, YOU WILL GET INFECTED. (If you do run it, the program appears to display some fireworks and then stops). This worm affects only Windows 95-98 computers. Macintosh users are safe from it. How to protect yourself from it: 1. DON'T RUN THE HAPPY99.EXE PROGRAM 2. Delete the e-mail(s) containing it so that someone else does not run it by accident. 3. Use antivirus software and keep it current. Norton Antivirus update Jan-99 or later knows about it. If you are using a different antivirus program, check with its manufacturer for protection from happy99. If you suspect you may be infected, check your windows\system directory for a file SKA.EXE and SKA.DLL . If you have them, you are infected. You can find more information about this and other viruses on the Symantec website at: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html . -- Krysia Jacobs webmaster@tajnet.org http://www.tajnet.org |
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