OR_-Be on a MAC-- Happy 99 doesn't do anything to them..another selling
point-most viruses are written to work on windows--Joy
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>From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Was Oops. Sorry Mag - Now Deri!!!
>Date: Wed, Mar 15, 2000, 5:26 PM
>

>                  Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>>            I am glad you saw this and as List Administrator 3
>> of 4  - I will see which one of us has the savey to handle
>> this. Betty?  This maybe a Deri thing - and he maybe beddy bye
>> by now - or maybe its only late afternoon there - 5ish 6ish
>> ---
>>
>>                Trisha - who is latitudinally time challenged!!
>>
>> > I got caught waiting for a response from you or for the
>> > Dystonia Digest. And sending warning.  It was serendipity
>> > that I found Happy 99 attached to the CPL Digest and an
>> > Unexpected Attachment from an otherwise blank apparently mass
>> > mailing from Mag (see below.)?
>> >
>> > I hate "Crying Wolf."  Wasn't faulting Mag.  Virii take on
>> > lives of their own when they find a computer to cozy.
>> >
>> > I tend to delete, then ask.  (One of those who doesn't like
>> > surprises and uninvited visitors.)  Would any of the List
>> > Manager's prefer I file and forward suspect attachments?
>> >
>> >  ISM
>> >
>Steve/Trisha,
>
>Happy99 came from Darcy (Eric Smith) in his request to be removed
>from the list, and so of course made it into the digest as well.
>It was purely accidental as he later apologised:-
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>> I am very sorry about that and I don't know how it happened. It
>> certainly wasn't intentional. I had a friend come over to fix
>> the problem.
>> Darcy
>
>I covered the question of what we could do about filtering virii
>at the Maelstrom end with Jasper (our previous list
>administrator) sometime last year (before we took over as List
>Administrators). There is no "virus guard" on the Maelstrom
>server, the only tool which a List Administrator has is to limit
>the maximum number of lines allowed in a single post, but since
>Happy99.exe only takes up just over 200 lines after it has been
>UUencoded this would mean setting the posting limit to 200 lines
>max, which isn't that much when you consider this includes any
>quoted posts within the message. Also this wouldn't exclude
>smaller virii of less than 200 lines.
>
>The best solution is to practice "safe" e-mailing, never click on
>attachments unless they are plain text (.txt), web page (.htm,
>.html) or one of the picture formats (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png,
>.tiff, .bmp - and a lot of other less well known ones).
>
>If you have caught Happy99 and can't afford one of the virus
>scanners to clean it away for you, please send me an e-mail and I
>will send you step by step instructions how to get rid of it
>manually (it's not too difficult).
>
>Of course the really sensible option is not to use any Microsoft
>Products, stick Linux on your PC and relax. :-)
>
>--
>Deri James
>