RE: DO NOT RUN HAPPY99.EXE

[Carlyle Fitzgerald <clfitz@inetone.net>]

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, John Heath wrote:

> The thing that puzzles me is why would he, apparently deliberately , have
> sent it to the list?  Does it attach itself automatically to a message
> header to appear as a bogus e-mail or what.

Once on an infected computer, it attaches itself randomly and invisibly to
e-mails and newsgroup postings.  Contrary to rumor, it does nothing but
that--it doesn't search for passwords or do anything at all to other
files.  It just endlessly passes itself along.

Actually, on a home computer, it's little more than an annoyance.  On a
network, though, it can bring a mail server to its knees in no time.

If anyone gets it, feel free to write; I have instructions for ridding
your computer of it, and it's relatively easy.  You don't have to reformat
or anything, just delete a couple files and reinstall wsock32.dll.

Carlyle
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