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Re: (meteorobs) that Happy99.exe thing
I did get this message and attachment. Norton's Antivirus picked it up
right away and dealt with the problem.
Cheers: Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: JosieCaat@aol.com <JosieCaat@aol.com>
To: meteorobs@jovian.com <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Date: March 24, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) that Happy99.exe thing
>To all meteor observers,
>
>One of the mailings going around on our list contained the downloadable
>attachment Happy99.exe
>
>I have not downloaded this myself but I know that several newsgroups have
been
>plagued by this. I am told that it is a virus and will disrupt your hard
>drive. What is does exactly I'm not sure but I have read on several posts
the
>remedy for it. If anyone has downloaded it and experiences any problems
this
>is what I was told to do:
>
>1) Either boot to DOS or close windows and go into DOS mode.
>2) Change directory to c:\windows\system < or whatever the Windows
>directory is>
>3) Enter following command at DOS prompt: copy wsock32.ska
>wsock32.dll<ENTER>
>4) Confirm overwrite if asked
>5) Reboot after DOS prompt appears
>
>I hope this helps anyone that has problems with this.
>
>Regards,
>
>Josie
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