Win_98
10-02-2000, 06:35 PM
Has anybody ever got infect by this? well I did once and it was from a merchant! I can't believe they were dumb enought to run the attachment happy99.exe which then write itself to windows directory. So everytime you send an email, it will attach itself and spread like a disease and the user themselve don't know. It act like AIDS but harmless, it was basically to freak you out and alot of people did. I sent a message to a webmaster, he caught it and thought it was me who gave him the virus! which I haven't a clue what he was talking about until I used an anti virus scanner and it found the affecting trojan. to find out more here the link
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=happy+new+year+virus
here a quote from one of the website I got, man is it hilarious how everyone is easily fooled into this?
--------------------------------------------A good friend found a file in a BBS. She opened it, liked it, and shared it. One of the most wonderful things about the internet is the sharing, but this was not wonderful.
I opened the Happy99.exe file, and enjoyed the pretty fireworks she sent to me. Oh, wasn't it sweet for her to think of me, and share this pretty program! I was very pleased.
That night another friend called me and said she had sent him the program, too. He did not open it because his antivirus program discovered and warned him that it contained a WORM VIRUS, and after calling her to see who else she may have shared this with, he wanted to warn me.
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QUOTE ^^^
LOL!
[This message has been edited by Win_98 (edited 10-02-2000).]
Fixed link. -Socalgal
[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 10-02-2000).]
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=happy+new+year+virus
here a quote from one of the website I got, man is it hilarious how everyone is easily fooled into this?
--------------------------------------------A good friend found a file in a BBS. She opened it, liked it, and shared it. One of the most wonderful things about the internet is the sharing, but this was not wonderful.
I opened the Happy99.exe file, and enjoyed the pretty fireworks she sent to me. Oh, wasn't it sweet for her to think of me, and share this pretty program! I was very pleased.
That night another friend called me and said she had sent him the program, too. He did not open it because his antivirus program discovered and warned him that it contained a WORM VIRUS, and after calling her to see who else she may have shared this with, he wanted to warn me.
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QUOTE ^^^
LOL!
[This message has been edited by Win_98 (edited 10-02-2000).]
Fixed link. -Socalgal
[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 10-02-2000).]