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Subject: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #1280
From: "Frank Wijsmuller" <Wijsmuller.VanderBel@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:27:27 +0100
Hello list,

The previous digest #1280 has an attachment called Happy99.exe
- do not run this program - it is a Trojan Horse virus.  It's not a very 
malignant virus but none the less it's very sneaky in  what it does. It 
replaces your winsock.dll with one of it's own which then attaches 
the Happy99.exe file to every email you send. Another side effect is 
that the new nasty version of winsock.dll is not very good and will 
slow your connection speeds down. Obviously this only effects you 
if you are running Windows. 

How to get rid of it (only if you *did* run it):

Go to http://www.yahoo.co.uk and search for "happy99"

There is a link to a page named:

"How to rid your computer of the Happy99 virus"

With thanks to various contributors on the Psion Series 5 
mailinglist, which had this virus a short while ago too.

Greetings, Frank Wijsmuller.

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