Author: James Swafford
Date: 15:30:27 05/13/99
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On May 13, 1999 at 15:19:29, William H Rogers wrote:
>James
>Sorry about the Happy, my kids sent me some email and it came through. I thought
>that I had removed it. Guess not. The reply that you sent me also contained the
>bug. Fortunately the file was named, so I deleted it and found the original one
>and deleted it also. I hope that its gone for good. The only thing that I know
>that it did, except for replicating itself was to show a bunch of happy faces on
>your screen. I don't think that it does any harm other than that.
>Bill
>I hope that I didn't spread it to anyone else.
Not a problem, but just deleting the file 'happy99.exe' won't fix anything.
From the symantec site:
Removing the worm manually:
1.delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.EXE
2.delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.DLL
3.in WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ directory, rename WSOCK32.DLL to
WSOCK32.BAK
4.in WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ directory, rename WSOCK32.SKA to
WSOCK32.DLL
5.delete the downloaded file, usually named HAPPY99.EXE
Windows prevents you to do step #3 and #4 above if the machine
is still connected to the Internet.
The file "windows\system\wsock32.dll" is used whenever the
machine is connected to Internet (i.e.
through dial-up or LAN connection).
There are other directions if you're using AOL or a LAN terminal,
but that should cover most people.
It's a shame some people waste their talent on malicious tricks.
--
James
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