I normally cringe at virus warning, however, I dealt with this one myself
and know it's for real. I try to avoid opening attachments unless
they are from a known and requested source. This time, my daughter
opened it without my knowing. The result was as advertised;
fireworks and Happy New Years 1999! As stated, there was no damage
to my computer and the virus was easily removed using the following
instructions:
You can also remove this trojan manually from your computer. To do that,
first check the WINDOWS\SYTEM folder for the
1. SKA.EXE
If you find these files then you have been attacked by the Happy99 Trojan. To remove this trojan do the following: 1. Delete SKA.EXE, SKA.DLL and WSOCK32.DLL
Make sure that you have WSOCK32.SKA file before deleting WSOCK32.DLL
and ensure that you have renamed
I was able to send emails intact. The problem was that it would automatically send a second email with the attached virus. Bottom Line: DON'T OPEN IT! Simply DELETE any attachment with the name "Happy99.exe". Once deleted, you'll have no problems. David Maxwell Dave Stragand wrote: Well,
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