if anyone had had any problemm with the Happy.99virus, can go to this web
page and see how to solve it!!!
as i had a trouble, i sent it to all of you!!! good luck!! sorry about my
english
http://shareware.intercom.es/servlets/busca?area=w95_avir
annie
-----Original Message-----
De: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
Para: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Fecha: Miércoles 29 de Septiembre de 1999 20:08
Asunto: Re: WARNING RE: C-PALSY Digest - 27 Sep 1999 to 28 Sep 1999
(#1999-263)


>                  Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>>         Was brought to the list by Daniel when he requested to
>> unsub - I let him know he had it. If anyone gets get I have a
>> program that gets rid of it. Hum - I hadn't thought about it
>> getting into the digest form - Deri?
>>
>>                             Brightest Blessing -
>>                                  Trisha - List Mama in Training
>>
>The digest is simply a concatenation of posts during a 24hr
>period, if any of the posts include attachments, those
>attachments are quite rightly included with the digest.
>
>>From the quantity of returned "error" messages sitting in my
>Errors mailbox tonight, many SMTP gateways now detect the virus
>and bounce it (back to me!) :-(
>
>Our predecessor, Jasper, discussed the problem of HAPPY.EXE with
>me (off list) about 2 months ago. The only weapon a List
>Administrator has to combat these virii is a very blunt edge
>instrument, namely set a parameter which prevents postings longer
>than a certain length being posted to this list
>
>Unfortunately HAPPY99.EXE is a very short virus (only some 225
>lines of BASE64 encoding) so setting the "throttle" would have to
>be below this figure. I did investigate this as a possibility but
>soon discovered several examples of long (but valid) posts which
>would have been rejected had the throttle been low enough to
>block the virus. (Baby with the bathwater?) So I declined to act
>on Jasper's suggestion.
>
>Anyway, if I set the throttle that low, we probably would never
>hear from Denise again - (I think I'm going to duck now!!!).
>
>Cheers
>
>PS If anyone has got the virus, I can dig up some instructions
>I've got to get rid of it (without running a program to remove it
>- it's easy).
>
>--
>Deri James
>