At 05:12 PM 22/12/00 -0800, Jim Lazar wrote:

Warning, I spotted the Happy99 exe virus in a recent FFML post. Whatever you

do, don't run the EXE file. The post name was "[FFML] [SPAM] fic request".

Spam of the worse kind in this case.

I assume it was an inadvertent spreading by an infected user.

Mr. Lazar is entirely correct.  The file (which was UUencoded, and
therefore bypassed Listar's automatic stripping) is a virus, and should be
deleted immediately.  Do not run the EXE under any circumstances.



We're currently trying to find out how this post made it onto the FFML in
the first place, but are assuming that the spread was inadvertent unless
evidence to the contrary is found.



-Alan Harnum, FFML Moderation Team (Just in time for the holidays, too...)