Rob Watson wrote:
>
> >
> > Virus Alert...
> >
> > > Today a user in plant 8 received an e-mail with a virus attached called
> > > happy99.exe.
> > > If you receive this attachment, please delete immediately. This virus when
> > > opened will rename system files that will cause the system to fail after
> > > re-booting and also attaches it self to outgoing e-mail without the user
> > > knowing.
This one's legit, and pretty fresh. Here's what the CIAC says:
Update on Happy99.exe Worm - 02/02/99
A computer worm called Happy99.exe has been discovered in the
wild in Europe and will likely spread to North America.
Most of the major anti-virus vendors now have updates that will
allow their software to detect the malicious code.
Please choose from the link below to download the product you
need.
For McAfee VirusScan 3 (hrlydats):
http://beta.nai.com/public/datafiles/HRLYDATS.ZIP
For McAfee VirusScan 4 (extra dat):
http://beta.nai.com/public/datafiles/extra/w32ska-4.zip
For Dr Solomon's AVTK (extra driver):
http://beta.nai.com/public/datafiles/extra/w32ska-7.zip
For Dr Solomon's VirusScan 4 (extra dat):
http://beta.nai.com/public/datafiles/extra/w32ska-4.zip
Other links include:
For Data Fellows:
Data Fellows Offers Free Protection Against the Happy99.exe
Computer Worm
For Symantec:
Happy99.Worm
To check out a virus I highly recommend Lawrence Livermore hosted
US Dept of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC).
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/
You can find their site search at:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/index/bulletins
Regards to all,
--
Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc
Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879
jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800
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