Apparently Happy99 is apparently a worm program which creates e-mail
attachments from the infected computer. Various web sites give
instructions on how to remove it, in case you have run the attachment
inadvertently. Here is Symantec's:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html
They also give away program to remove it automatically:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/fix.happy99.worm.html
Markus Schulze wrote:
>
> Dear participants,
>
> I got some questions from five different participants of
> this mailing list about the attachment of my last mail.
>
> The answer is: My last mail originally didn't have any
> attachment. But -I don't know why- www.egroups.com
> attached a file with a Happy99 virus.
>
> Therefore if you have got a mail from me on 28 Feb 2000
> with an attachment, then you should delete this attachment
> immediately.
>
> Markus Schulze