VIRUS ALERT Happy99
BrianShore
alt.personals.gay. What actually got downloaded was the file
Happy99.exe containing Happy99.Worm or I-Worm.Happy of about 10,000
bytes.
WHAT IT DOES:
This worm modifies WSOCK32.DLL to send itself as an attachment when a
posting is made to USENET or MAIL.
If you download a file called Happy99.exe delete it. Run your
anti-virus software and follow your software's instructions should this
worm still be on your system.
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Melinda Shore
Last month I posted about extensive problems getting
my truck fixed and how it led to my purchasing my first
car in over 20 years. I also sent hate mail to the
dealer with the incompetent service department. Several
days ago I returned from having been away for 1.5 weeks
to find a 3x5 card tucked into my front door with the
following message written in ball-point pen. I'm
transcribing the text verbatim:
Melinda: Sorry I missed seeing you this lovely spring
afternoon. But I'm so much more requretting that we let
you down on correctly preforming the repairs to your
pickup. I'll try to meet with you. You are important to
us. You put your trust and your vechile in our care. We
let you down and inconvienced you. That is not what should
ever happen. Your experiance and the reasons for that
happening have had true changes to take place. Both in
staff + methods. Thank you for you straight forward
letter. Carl [Carl is the general manager of the
dealership]
Apparently the manager drove all the way out to my house to
apologize, which is kind of impressive, and not finding me
there penned the above note, which is either incredibly
pathetic or is a brilliant piece of marketing. I'm still
never buying another vehicle from those nitwits again, but,
like, wow.
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Melinda Shore - Cayuga Whine Trail - sh...@panix.com
If you send me harassing email, I'll probably post it
John Whiteside
<brian...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> If you download a file called Happy99.exe delete it. Run your
> anti-virus software and follow your software's instructions should this
> worm still be on your system.
Reasons not to download photos from newsgroups....
Reasons not to use a wintel machine...
Reasons to be cheeful?
Arne Adolfsen
Melinda Shore <sh...@panix.com> wrote:
[quoting a car dealership's semi-literate note slipped
under her door]
>I'm still
>never buying another vehicle from those nitwits again, but,
>like, wow.
I can't imagine why you think "wow" might be a logical response
to that stupid (but not unprecedented) note. I routinely (three,
four times a week) receive semi-literate and positively illiterate
memoranda and email from tenured professors at work that bests that,
plus I see stuff in the LA and NY Times that is frequently as badly
written.
Arne
--
"All Aretha ever said to me -- and I died -- we were in a lift, and she just
put her hand on my arm and went, 'Girlll'" -- Dusty Springfield
Richard Jasper
Melinda Shore wrote:
> Apparently the manager drove all the way out to my house to
> apologize, which is kind of impressive, and not finding me
> there penned the above note, which is either incredibly
> pathetic or is a brilliant piece of marketing. I'm still
> never buying another vehicle from those nitwits again, but,
> like, wow.
Whoa!
Like, you're right. Amazing.
-- rpj
Robert S. Coren
>In article <7hcq9q$f26$1...@panix2.panix.com>,
>Melinda Shore <sh...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>[quoting a car dealership's semi-literate note slipped
>under her door]
>
>>never buying another vehicle from those nitwits again, but,
>>like, wow.
>
>to that stupid (but not unprecedented) note. I routinely (three,
>four times a week) receive semi-literate and positively illiterate
>memoranda and email from tenured professors at work that bests that,
>plus I see stuff in the LA and NY Times that is frequently as badly
>written.
Do the writers drive to you door to deliver these badly-written
missives?
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"At least the craters on my asteroid look nice." --BBC
Gary G. Taylor
>Apparently the manager drove all the way out to my house to
>apologize, which is kind of impressive, and not finding me
>there penned the above note, which is either incredibly
>pathetic or is a brilliant piece of marketing. I'm still
>never buying another vehicle from those nitwits again, but,
>like, wow.
When I first read your account I could have sworn that the
_denouement_ of the story was that he was stalking you. But naaaahhh.
Gary G. Taylor 29 Palms, CA
Remove s-ammenot to reply via email
http://www.donavan.org
Freedom is the best revenge.
D Lewis
>why a town would be named for a chapter of a book of the Bible.
...Unless it was in Alabama...
henry mensch
->figure out, for the life of me, why you lived in "29 Psalms", nor
->why a town would be named for a chapter of a book of the Bible.
oh, come on, mike ... everyone knows how holy california is ...
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# http://www.verve.org/henry/
Gary G. Taylor
wrote:
>ga...@s-ammenot.donavan.org (Gary G. Taylor) wrote:
>>On 12 May 1999 17:02:50 -0400, sh...@panix.com (Melinda Shore) wrote:
>[ .. about The Truck Story .. ]
>>When I first read your account I could have sworn that the
>>_denouement_ of the story was that he was stalking you. But naaaahhh.
>>
>>Gary G. Taylor 29 Palms, CA
>
>That's OK. When I first saw your .sig this morning I couldn't
>figure out, for the life of me, why you lived in "29 Psalms", nor
>why a town would be named for a chapter of a book of the Bible.
>
Well I spose you DO have to have faith in something to live here, in
view of the climate and isolation and all that.
Regarding the name of the town, see my personal page.
David Kaye
" I recently downloaded what I thought was a jpg file from
" alt.personals.gay. What actually got downloaded was the file
" Happy99.exe containing Happy99.Worm or I-Worm.Happy of about 10,000
" bytes.
I never have a problem. For downloading binaries (or scanning any
newsgroups) I use News Express (NX). I just run it and forget it.
NX automatically decodes MIME file and spits the contents into
whatever directory I've chosen. NX downloaded everything in every
newsgroup I've chosen and then my winsock logs me off.
Then, when I come back to my computer a couple hours later, I go to the
directory and delete files such as *.exe, *.htm, *.lnk, etc. I then look
at the rest with a picture viewer such as Sorter, and put the visible ones
into their respective directories (uncut, smiley, stud, strange, longhair,
etc). Those files that aren't visible in the viewer I leave in the
download directory and then delete them when finished. I've downloaded
over 100,000 pictures (filing up several CDs) and have never had any sort
of virus.
" This worm modifies WSOCK32.DLL to send itself as an attachment when a
" posting is made to USENET or MAIL.
This is (in my opinion) mistake #2. I use a Unix shell program, tin, to
read newsgroups, and a Unix shell mail reader, pine, to do mail. Thus,
nothing can get attached to my own computer.
While it's tempting to look at a jpeg on a personals newsgroup, I'm too
much aware that there are nasty people out there trying to wreck people's
systems.
--
(C) 1999 Early aspirin was made from willow trees.
David Kaye
dk at wco.com
David G. Burbee, Ph.D.
> ga...@s-ammenot.donavan.org (Gary G. Taylor) wrote:
> >On 12 May 1999 17:02:50 -0400, sh...@panix.com (Melinda Shore) wrote:
> [ .. about The Truck Story .. ]
> >When I first read your account I could have sworn that the
> >_denouement_ of the story was that he was stalking you. But naaaahhh.
> >
> >Gary G. Taylor 29 Palms, CA
>
> That's OK. When I first saw your .sig this morning I couldn't
> figure out, for the life of me, why you lived in "29 Psalms", nor
> why a town would be named for a chapter of a book of the Bible.
Maybe 29 Psalms is the Reader's Digest Condensed version?