Re: GEN: The Happy99 Trojan Horse (AKA Worm)

[Schimmels Family <megschimme@FN.NET>]

I would like to add the following caveat...if you are not the sole user of
your computer, you are particularly vulnerable. I have two teenage boys
(one an international exchange student) who e-mail to friends all over the
world. After Happy99 was discovered on my computer, unbeknownst to me BTW,
I asked around to my teenagers. "Oh, yeah", said one of them, "I received a
really pretty fireworks program from a friend of mine in Germany." End of
story....

Moral? Keep your virus definitions updated at least weekly (I now do mine
every night)...but, alas, the Happy99 virus was spreading for about two
weeks before there was a fix for it.

2nd moral? Never, ever open an executable file sent as an attachment to an
e-mail.

3rd moral? Send the teenagers off to live with the wild things without
eating their supper! <g>


Meg Schimmels, LMS
Funston Elementary
Wichita (KS) Public Schools
http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/ksmom49/#current
(w) funston@feist.com
(h) megschimme@fn.net

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