Lisa...In a perfect world, that's way it would be. I don't have cash to repair holes in my sneakers, let alone repair my puter. Got it 5 years ago, only 8MG of RaM AND yeAH! I take this personally! I dont' have access to virus protectors! I don't have cash to research properly my ancestors. You think I wanna waste what cash I have on people who wanna trash my puter? I'm annoyed and rightly so! If I had cash I'd send for birth certificates, not virus protector programs for people who think trashing other peoples puters is a "recreation"! Vicki LCleversey wrote: > Whoa, First it would be nice to contact this person and see if they > actually know they have the virus. I too got hit by the Happy99 it came > to me from a piece of bounced mail from one of the three list (COOK,BIRD > or NYSTEUBE). I didn't open the file but it still did some damage, I > lost my inbox on my Netscape server and lost my total AOL program. > What i suggest you do is write the list you received it off of and let > the members know that if anyone has opened a file called Happy99 that > shows a firework display that they have the worm. Even if they are not > sure they have if, they should assume they do if they opened this > firework file and should NOT send any futher mail till they get rid of > the worm from their computer. > If any thinks they have this worm here's how to remove it; > Removing the worm manually: > > 1.delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.EXE > 2.delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.DLL > 3.replace WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL with > WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.SKA > 4.delete the downloaded file, usually named HAPPY99.EXE > > This is just one reminder that we sould NEVER download anything from > anyone we don't know. Of course I know several person that received it > from friends that didn't know they were sending it. > The best thing is that you get a virus protection program and keep it up > todate. > > Lisa Cleversey > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Co-List Owner COOK, List Owner BIRD & NYSTEUBE (Steuben Co NY) > Heartland/Fields Community Leader -2500-2999 > Heartland Genealogy Society & Web Ring > Co-Chairman-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2416 > cleversey's Home Page-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/5421 > cleversey@geocities.com -Icq #9492621