Re: Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message ....

["Trevor Hartsell" <pravda@introvert.org>]

Oops, that's right.  I remember now.
Sorry for the erroneous information.

-Trevor
<http://www.introvert.org/>

----- Original Message -----
From: <floyd@voicenet.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message ....


> >
> > David, I believe Happy99.exe is the infamous "Melissa Virus" that you
may
> > have heard about in the news last month.
>
> No. Happy99.exe is the Happy99 worm.  It infects your computer when you
> run the happy99.exe program.
>
> Meliisa is a different but similar worm.  It infects your computer when
you
> open the Micro$oft Wrod .doc file that is attached to the message.  But 
>it
> will not infect your computer if you have virus protection option turned
on
> in your Word 97 program (i.e. the option to automatically run Word file
> macros is turned off).
>
>