RE: [T3] Happy99.exe!

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

Aw crap!!!  Karl, thanks for the heads-up...too late though, I ran it.  Tom,
thanks for the URL, damn helpful!! :)  I'm running Windows NT and after
closing Happy99.exe my Dr. Watson kicked in and gave some error.  I checked
my registry and nothing showed up, whew!  The files did show up in my
Windows/System32 directory, not the System directory.  Hmm, my anti-virus
didn't pick it up, either...well, time to load the patches.

    Toby Erkson
    air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
    (This is my preferred address)

> -----Original Message-----
> Well,蹖ｊhe trusting guy I am here's what I did. 
> 
> Thinking it might be a cool program from another T3'er, I downloaded
> the program (I know, I shouldn't but read on), since I'm using 
> Hotmail, I have the option to scan any downloads prior to loading 
> them on my hard drive, so I scanned it first. It came up clean! So
> I downloaded it and ran it. Thought ok, pretty cool.
> 
> Then come's along Karl's message below, and I think...Oh S...! just
> what I need. So since I have Mcafee on my system anyway, thought it
> might be a good time to update the 'ole virus dat files so I go to
> their site and guess what I see right on the front page - A virus
> warning about happy99.exe. 
> 
> they have a fix for it on the page, here's the address if any of you
> also have Mcafee...
> 
> http://beta.nai.com/public/datafiles/valerts/vinfo/w32ska.htm
> 
> Luckly, I had not rebooted my system after I ran the program and I
> deleted all programs and dll's referenced on the page before it could
> spread any further.
> 
> Sorry for no T3 content but I thought this info might be important
> to others on the list that might have downloaded this 'cool' program.
> 
...
> >HEY!
> >Watch it with this "Happy99.exe" attachment! It seems to be a nice =
> >harmless
> >firework, but it is a "Trojan horse".
> >It's a virus that infects your computer when you run the 
> program, but =
> >you
> >won't notice that immediatly. It wont get started until next reboot.
> >Luckily, it's not so harmful, but it can mess up your 
> computer a lot. =

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