[20191] in APO-L
Urgent REAL virus warning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Rock)
Sat Feb 13 14:44:52 1999
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 14:40:31 -0500
Reply-To: Chris Rock <rock@CITLINK.NET>
From: Chris Rock <rock@CITLINK.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Knowing there's a lot of overlap between the lists (SOC & L) I wanted to
warn everyone here. Someone unknowingly just sent a message to SOC with an
attachment called Happy99.exe. That file opens a worm virus that attaches
itself to all the messages you send.
DO NOT OPEN THAT FILE.
DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY.
Here is the information on the anti-virus sites if you opened it before you
read this.
>Bad news folks this is a real one. Information can be found on the Mcafee
>page: Http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/query.asp. Apparently a non-malignant
>self propagating worm. Went to work this morning and found a message that
>I can not tell you about (unless you're a .mil, which onelist is not) which
>led me to a site I can tell you about. Since this morning Mcafee has
>posted scanning and fixing solutions, don't know about Norton, they did not
>have anything this morning but may by now. Neither antivirus would have
>noticed this infection this past weekend. Official name is win32/ska. If
>you opened a attachment by this name you need to go to the site I listed
>above for information on the fix.
>
>Here is the site for Norton:
>
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html
