Klarinet Archive - Posting 001220.txt from 1999/04

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music programs
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:02:37 -0400

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.

K
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Ken Wolman dbtrader Deutsche Bank, N.A.
1251 Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10019 212-469-6494

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