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From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] HAPPY99.exe
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 20:52:38 -0400


Hi Betty & All,

As I understand it, this particular virus isn't harmful, or at least that's
what I have heard! It just duplicates, over and over.

I just looked up Dr. Soloman's website :
http://www.drsolomon.com/home/home.cfm but, I didn't find anything about
the actual Happy99.exe virus.

You certainly can't have any more dumb questions than I do, when it comes
to all this stuff!
Thank the Lord, I saved the messages from other discussions about this
little Happy99.exe worm! Here's what was said:

- --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>>This is a very nice utility, in that it not only AUTOMATICALLY
removes all the files that Happy99.exe installs and puts the system
back the way it was before being corrupted, it lets the unfortunate
user view all the his/her emails to which the danged file was attached
and sent on.
>>>***********************************************************
>>>HAPPY99CLEANER 2.0
>>>File size: 716K
>>>License: freeware
>>>Minimum requirements: Windows 95/98/NT
>>>
>>>There's a pesky little virus going around the Net these days called
>>Happy99.exe. It doesn't damage your system or corrupt any data, but
it can spread like wildfire if unchecked because it attaches itself to
every email you send and every newsgroup message you post.
"Happy99Cleaner" won't protect you from the virus, but it can get rid
of it if you've been infected. After you clean out your system, you
can check the LISTE.SKA file to see a list of email addresses you have
sent the virus to and start writing those apologies. Get ready to be
happy:
>>>
>><http://www.download.com/DD/dl/0,302,0-0309-1-017,00.html>;
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If there are ANY computer literate folks on the list, I am sure we could
use your help!
Has anyone downloaded this program? It appears to be free, and it requires
that you have either Windows 95 or 98, am I correct?

For someone to have listed it on the New Listowners' support list, I would
expect it to be reputable.

Jean

At 05:04 PM 5/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Jean: Thanks for telling me about the Virus. I received that
>yesterday and it was like it was coming from this man who had just sent
>me a letter regarding a particular family; so I saved it. then when I
>got into it, I couldn't figure out why he had sent it. Then just before
>I got your message about the Virus, I got the same Happy 99 from you.
> Now another one of my "dumb" questions: I have checked and I have 2
>of these little guys, so how and where do I go to get rid of it. I know
>you gave me instructions but I still don't know what program to get into
>for anit-virus. Thanks.
>Betty
>
>
>
>
>Jean Mayfield Cuevas wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> A couple of times this week, I have received messages from folks who had
>> the Happy99.exe attached, so I thought I would pass along a copy of a
>> message sent to my listowners' Newby-L list, which will explain what to do,
>> if you should receive this little "fellow"! :-)
>>
>> Jean C.
>>
>> To Check to see if you have benn HIT with this virus use your FIND
>
>
>==== ARIZARD Mailing List ====
>In addition, see Jeri Helms Fultz' Izard Co. AR webpage at:
http://idt.net/~jfultz19/izardco1.htm
>
>
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