"Virus" sent to propagation list

Hi Neil,

   It looks like your system is infected by a trojan horse called
   HAPPY.EXE, and tried to send a copy of itself to the propagation
   mailing list as an attachment.  At some point you probably ran
   a program under the same name and saw a nice fireworks display
   on your monitor, but it also infected your system.

   Fortunately, the filters in place on the Mallorn servers caught the
   message before it was sent out to everyone, so no harm was done.
   However, any messages that you send to other lists or people not at
   Mallorn will probably get through.

   There's some instructions on removing the trojan horse at:

      http://www.pspl.com/trojan_info/win32/happy99.htm

      "You can also remove this trojan manually from your computer. To
      do that, first check the WINDOWS\SYTEM folder for the presence
      of these files.

         1. SKA.EXE
         2. SKA.DLL
         3. WSOCK32.SKA

      If you find these files then you have been attacked by the
      Happy99 Trojan. To remove this trojan do the following:

         1. Delete SKA.EXE, SKA.DLL and WSOCK32.DLL
         2. Rename WSOCK32.SKA as WSOCK32.DLL

      Make sure that you have WSOCK32.SKA file before deleting
      WSOCK32.DLL and ensure that you have renamed this file
      properly. You may have to close your Browser, Email software,
      etc. to delete and rename the DLL files."

   The above URL also provides more detailed information about
   the actual trojan horse (if you care about that kind of thing).

Chris

P.S.  I'm Cc:'ing this to the propagation list so that others who may 
      run into this know what's going on.  The moral of the story is
      to never run attachments that someone sends you unless you trust
      that person implicitly AND they've told you that they're sending
      you an attachment in their message.  If you're not sure, send
      them a message back asking if they meant to send you an 
      attachment.

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