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Message no. 1
From: Dave Post caelric@****.com
Subject: All these double posts...
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:34:00 -0800
I'm told that one of the effects of the Happy99.exe virus is that it causes
all your email to go out twice. So, if you are one of those people who is
sending out double posts, you might want to check for that virus. I'm not
sure of the particulars of the virus are, but I am rather sure it is a
Windows 95/98 specific virus, and that it does something to your .dll files
in your windows directory.

If recieving this email bothers all you non-Windows users out there, tough!
;)

A public service announcement from....me!

Dave
Message no. 2
From: Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu
Subject: All these double posts...
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:00:32 -0500
At 03:34 PM 3/24/99 , Dave Post wrote:
>I'm told that one of the effects of the Happy99.exe virus is that it causes
>all your email to go out twice. So, if you are one of those people who is
>sending out double posts, you might want to check for that virus. I'm not
>sure of the particulars of the virus are, but I am rather sure it is a
>Windows 95/98 specific virus, and that it does something to your .dll files
>in your windows directory.

As a techie who has this going around his office, I can tell you it
annoying. Not all of the virus checker pick it up. Dr Solomon needs an
extra.drv file added to find it, for example.

Do a search on your hard drive for ska*.* and delete all of the files that
it finds. Reboot the system in command mode and delete the wsock32.ddl file
from your c:\windows\system dir. Then rename wsock32.ska as wsock32.dll.

That should clean off your system completely. There's also another file
with a .ska extension that contains a list of everyone that you sent the
virus to so you can tell them that you infected them.

Hope this helps.

Sommers
Insert witty quote here.
Message no. 3
From: A Halliwell u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk
Subject: All these double posts...
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:01:26 +0000 (GMT)
And verily, did Dave Post hastily scribble thusly...
|If recieving this email bothers all you non-Windows users out there, tough!
| ;)

Why would it bother us? We're immune to all those crappy little insignifican
viruses.....

<EG>

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| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| Finalist in:- |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
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Message no. 4
From: Ryan W. Bolduan emeottrw@***.umn.edu
Subject: All these double posts...
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:03:52 -0600 (CST)
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Dave Post wrote:

> I'm told that one of the effects of the Happy99.exe virus is that it causes
> all your email to go out twice. So, if you are one of those people who is
> sending out double posts, you might want to check for that virus. I'm not
> sure of the particulars of the virus are, but I am rather sure it is a
> Windows 95/98 specific virus, and that it does something to your .dll files
> in your windows directory.
>

Still doesn't explain it for me. I've had several double posts and I'm
running e-mail off a UNIX box (aaaah, good 'ol PINE). Ugh, why would I
ever use anything else?

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Ryan Bolduan emeottrw@***.mrs.umn.edu
http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~emeottrw

A person concerned with such important matters as I, need not, and should
not, attend to spelling.
--Napolean
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Message no. 5
From: Craig J Wilhelm Jr craigjwjr@*********.net
Subject: All these double posts...
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:00:12 -0500
From: Ryan W. Bolduan <emeottrw@***.umn.edu>
> Still doesn't explain it for me. I've had several double posts and I'm
> running e-mail off a UNIX box (aaaah, good 'ol PINE). Ugh, why would I
> ever use anything else?

I am Bill Gates of b0rg, PINE is Irrelevant!

;)
--
Craig "Knee Deep in the Blood of Swine" Wilhelm
Those who would give up a little freedom for security
deserve neither freedom nor security
-Benjamin Franklin
UIN: 1864690
Rho Phi Gamma
http://home.earthlink.net/~craigjwjr/
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