Re: DON'T Open Happy99

["Joyce A. Baldwin" <jocetta@ibm.net>]

Poster: "Joyce A. Baldwin" <jocetta@ibm.net>

Have I been protected by my primitive technology?  I am running Windows
3.11 on a 486/8Mb machine ( _and_  a 14,400 baud modem...feel free to sqeal
"Oh, how _quaint_!") and I collect my email through Eudora Lite.

I did get the email message you're all talking about but all I saw when I
read it was a bunch of (to me) gobbldygook, headed by the words "begin 644
happy99.exe."  I sometimes get files like this.  I usually assume that
means a .exe file was converted to a text file because my machine can't run
it, so it just reads it.  Is this the way it works?

No fireworks, no picture.  The message is still sitting quietly in my
"Trash" file and a file search produced no files named SKA.EXE or Happy99.EXE
I'm about to empty the Trash file, which I assume will make it go away.

Jocetta,
 The barely computer literate ("See Windows run. Run Windows, run.  Please
do not crash.") and also one of the technologically disadvantaged - but
hey, when you're way behind the cutting edge of technology, you don't have
to worry so much about dropping it.  Besides, it's cheap.


>This one, for a change, is not a hoax.  A woman in my office has gotten it
>also, and we got it cleaned off her machine before she was able to send it
>out anywhere.  McAfee has support for it now, also.  Anyone using
>Windows-based email clients that gets this file only needs to delete the
>email message (Macs & Unix folks are safe, of course).  It can't hurt your
>machine unless you run the program.

>Istvan Dragosani

Joyce A. Baldwin
Diva Extraordinaire

In the Society for Creative Anachronism:
Lady Jocetta Thrushleigh of Rowansgarth
Exchequer, Canton of Buckston on Eno
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