VIRUS alert....

[Pat Ford]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Barry Tisdale wrote:

> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 10:31:03 -0500
> From: Barry Tisdale <btisdale at cybersol.com>
> To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: VIRUS alert....
> 
> There's a virus (worm, actually), that attaches itself to your outgoing email w/o your knowing about it.  I got it & may have passed it to this group, or individual members.  Goes by the name HAPPY99.EXE - please check your drive - if you find it, do NOT run it, delete it.
> 
> If there IS a problem w/ it, contact me for the fix.
> 
> Sorry about that - Barry
> 

do you have any other details? ( I'm not worried at work but, home mail 
is win.95) This sounds strang but if anyone catches this bug could you 
send it to me ( as a programming virii are interesting ) I have a zoo 
full of them 8-)


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