Apologies :(

[Sprawl]

Apologies, yes.  Flames, HELL NO.  Those who flamed should take the time to
educate themselves before shooting off.  It could just as easily have been
any of those people who posted the relatively harmless trojan to the list.
The only thing -you- are guilty of, besides not having a decent AV program,
is running the executable in the first place.  Dumb, but forgivable.


>Folks -
>
>Please accept my sincerest apologies regarding the happy99.exe worm
>program.  All flames accepted and deserved.   I knew I was in trouble when
>I downloaded my email this morning and saw TWO posts from me.  My computer
>has since been completely scanned and cleaned with Norton Antivirus using
>the latest Virus update from Symantec's Web site.  Interestingly enough is
>that Norton Antivirus did not even consider this a suspect file and did not
>detect mods to the winsock files with the old virus data base I had
>previously installed.  Usually, antivirus software can detect this behavior
>even if the virus or worm program is not explicitly in its database.
>
>Many thanks to the folks who reported this back to the group so quickly and
>with instructions on how to remedy this situation.
>
>Once again - I apologize for any inconveniences I have caused to the users
>of this List Server.
>
>Shawn
>