,
        Steve (and everyone):

        The way a worm virus (like happy99) works is by sending
        itself from an infected system.

        While Eddy's spam to TechNet addresses is well known, he
        is not sending the virus conciously.  His system is in-
        fected and therefore it is either attaching itself to
        his outgoing mails or perhaps reading his address book
        and sending itself.  I forget which exact form this virus
        takes.

        I'd really like to suggest the following site for anyone
        needing virus information:

        http://ciac.llnl.gov  for virus and security information

        http://ciac.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/cnotes  for happy99

        My personal belief is that we'll all get better virus info
        from a source like this than we will from TechNet...  And
        if you're a US citizen you've already paid for the info...

        Regards,
--

      Jeff Seeger                         Applied CAD Knowledge Inc
      Chief Technical Officer                  Tyngsboro, MA  01879
      jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com                978 649 9800

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