Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 1999/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music programs
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 11:44:43 -0400

At 02:02 PM 4/30/99 -0400, Ken Wolman wrote:
>fsheim@-----.com wrote:
>>
>> I read the message- am I infected? What do you mean by "opening the
>> attachment?" If I click on the message and read it is that opening it?
>>
>> Fred (fsheim@-----.com)
>
>Exactly. I got the same file this morning. I probably have it at home
>too, because I subscribe to this list from two different accounts. Any
>file with the ".exe" suffix is an executable. All you have to do is
>click on it and it executes you:-(.
>
>Your machine gets infected only if you run the file by clicking on it,
>or by saving it someplace and running it from a shell command line.
>Right now you're okay.
>
>Get it out of whatever attachments directory you have (i.e., Eudora by
>default writes everything to a folder called [drive]:eudoraattach.
>If need be, run whatever search program you have to find "happy99.exe"
>and then go kill it. Whatever you do, don't run it.
>
I have received this file numerous times in e-mail, but it always shows up
as a text message of gibberish, rather than saving as an executable file.
It never shows up in a file search. Executable files my sister sends me
sometimes show up this way, too. I presume that this means I am not
getting actually infected, but I would like to know why. Mark???

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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