Corpus-Paul

["Mark Goodacre" <M.S.Goodacre AT bham.ac.uk>]

On 27 Mar 00, at 18:38, Robert Hunter wrote:

> Regarding the following virus warning that was posted earlier today,

> you may breathe easy as Symantec says that Budweiser is a hoax, not a
> virus. See http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/buddylst.zip.html.


You are right about that, but I am sorry to say that with this very 
message you have inadvertently sent a worm to the list, the 
happy99.exe worm.  The origin of this was probably the earlier 
message to the list from Dr.Kishore Kosala, with which also came 
a copy of the happy99.exe worm, as Jim West pointed out.  
Anyone who has opened this attachment will find that the worm 
has done its work and you will need to disinfect your machine.

As I understand it, the worm connects itself to your email program 
and sends out copies of the worm without you knowing it to 
everyone to whom you have sent legitimate Emails. This is 
particularly problematic in the case of the E-Lists because multiple 
copies of the worm will be sent out. There are some details about it 
and information on how to remove it 
at:

http://www.symantec.com/ns-
search/promos/webmaster/happyworm.html?NS-searc
h-set=/38b46/aaa0wjA_1b46da6&NS-doc-offset=0&

(but of course watch the wrap).

The difficulty is that we are now so use to seeing the hoaxes that it 
is a bit of a surprise when we get a real virus!  If anyone has 
opened either of these attachments, you must take action to 
disinfect your email programs as soon as you can.

All best
Mark

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