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4/18/1999 8:57 PM

I recently found I had a Virus. Its called Happy 99.. It attaches itself to your e-mail and goes to someone else. It is a worm virus, and will mess up your computer, it will ride to a friends computer through e-mail without you knowing it. So if you see a fireworks display, that you think someone has sent to look at, you have the virus. Its easy to get rid of, and will list everyone that it went to from your e-mail.Then you'll have to contact them and and they will have to see who they sent it to, on and on.Here is the Happy 99 clean...www.free.com it will check for this virus and get rid of it. You should also check your files for anything with happy or 99 and see if some might be there. and delete them.Better check for this.. Richie

4/19/1999 12:56 AM
Steve A.	Richie: Had a touch of that bug myself. I seem to remember that it created/renamed some files as *.SKA so its a good idea to search all of our drives for files with that extension. (There was a thread on this forum in early March on HAPPY99.EXE.) Steve Ahola P.S. If you don't run any EXE files that come as e-mail attachments you will not catch the virus!

4/19/1999 9:02 AM
Trace	Richie; Did this virus get your computer??? God I hope not. I'll keep a look out for it then. You said that you'll fireworks after you send the email or before? Thanks so much; Trace

4/19/1999 9:33 AM
Carlo	You see the fireworks display after you download and run the 'Happy.exe' file. The file shows up attached to an email you receive from a computer that has the virus. Like Steve said, if you don't download the file, you won't catch the virus. Carlo

4/19/1999 11:59 AM
Don Symes	Now that Word .DOC and Excel .XLS files have a really capable macro language built in, even those files should be handled as if they were executable - set up those applications to ASK whether to enable macros for a new file.

4/21/1999 9:24 PM

"It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' virus???

I was recently warned of a virus named "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' or it is attached to a file with the name. I haven't had an oportunity to confirm if this is true from my work yet, but keep it in mind. It is supposed to be worse than the 'melissa' virus.

I had Happy99.exe on my hard drive for over a month before I knew it. It wasn't till I tried to use Outlook that I realized I had it. I e-mailed myself a message (to hotmail) and it was an attachment. I was quite shocked. Fortunately, I searched for it on my hard drive, found it and deleted it before it was opened. Or before I unknowingly forwarded it to my mother... Oh she'd be upset!

nic

4/21/1999 10:30 PM

Geoff Van Brunt

It's a hoax and an old one at that. It's meant to scare people. Usually you'll get an email stating to watch for e-mails with the subjet saying "It takes guts to say Jesus" or "good times" etc... because if you read them, you'll get the virus. It is NOT possible to receive a virus by reading and e-mail. Period. There are no exceptions. You will never get a virus by reading an e-mail. So don't worry about it.

For a virus to spread, it must be run. This can be an executable file in an e-mail attachment. Don't run anything you receive by e-mail unless you know what it is AND scan it first. Both Happy99 and Melissa are e-mail attachments that must be executed to infect your computer. Melissa is a Macro virus (actually it's technically not a virus exactly), that uses Microsoft Office's programing capabilities to do it's dirty work. It just looks like an ordinary Office document.

As for Happy99 it's not really dangerous, just a pain in the butt. Here's a link with more info on it and removal instructions.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html

GVB

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