Author: James Robertson
Date: 21:26:00 05/13/99
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On May 14, 1999 at 00:24:03, John Wish wrote: >I picked this virus up off of another newsgroup. (not this one) My computer >froze up, then I was disconnected from the internet. I pressed control alt >delete several times to reboot my computer. It wouldn't reboot until I did this >several times. I finally got that dialog box saying "this program has performed >an illegal function and will be shut down. If the problem persists contact the >vendor" or some such thing. However in the blue title bar, which borders the >top portion of that dialog box, a message was printed in white letters which >said something to the effect of "You have just caught the big one". My virus >detector, Guard Dog, didn't detect it either. I know others who have caught >this virus. Many virus detectors are not detecting this virus. This virus is >spreading. I installed a 56k modem on this old PC. I can't use it now, the >port com got infected. I'm back to using my old 28.8k modem. Are you sure this is Happy99? Read the URL James supplied, and I think you will find it is a different virus. James
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