Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:24 AM
I wanted to alert ALL other members of this list of a potential virus
threat. I have little experience in this area, so this may be a false
alarm.
I received another message from Farshad Torabi that seems like it
MAY be infected with a virus. The attachment name of
Happy99.Exe is disturbing, since it sounds like one of the many
HAPPY viruses.
I booted up a spare "test" partition on my laptop, and viewed both
messages. I also extracted the file attachment and scanned it with
Norton AntiVirus, which detected nothing. Then I tried to run
Happy99.Exe, and it failed with an illegal instruction.
The message did not say there was a virus, but that the program
could not run due to "restrictions on this computer". I assume that
means that the Norton AntiVirus auto-protect really did work.
Rick Groszkiewicz, FSA, EA, MSPA
<<http://www.softwarepolish.com>
voice / fax 770-971-8913
The beginning of the "suspicious message follows ...
From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>"Farshad Torabi" [address removed]
<bold>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Fw: [LF] Runge-Kutta 4 (or 4-5 adaptive)
Fortran 90 code</bold></color>
Date sent: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:54:47 PDT</color>
This message has attachments; click 'Attachment' to see them.
begin 644 Happy99.exe
<<lots of stuff follows>
************************************************** ******************
From: "Farshad Torabi" [address removed]
To: "Fortran" [address removed]
Date sent: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:41:31 +0330
Subject: Fw: [LF] Runge-Kutta 4 (or 4-5 adaptive) Fortran 90 code
<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>As I know this kind of routines are all over the world in recepies.<bigger>
<smaller>For example you can find it in FORTRAN Power Station fron MicroSoft<bigger>
<smaller>Recepies guid. This routine works well i checked it myself<bigger>
<smaller>(See MSN)<bigger>
<smaller>Farschad<bigger>
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threat. I have little experience in this area, so this may be a false
alarm.
I received another message from Farshad Torabi that seems like it
MAY be infected with a virus. The attachment name of
Happy99.Exe is disturbing, since it sounds like one of the many
HAPPY viruses.
I booted up a spare "test" partition on my laptop, and viewed both
messages. I also extracted the file attachment and scanned it with
Norton AntiVirus, which detected nothing. Then I tried to run
Happy99.Exe, and it failed with an illegal instruction.
The message did not say there was a virus, but that the program
could not run due to "restrictions on this computer". I assume that
means that the Norton AntiVirus auto-protect really did work.
Rick Groszkiewicz, FSA, EA, MSPA
<<http://www.softwarepolish.com>
voice / fax 770-971-8913
The beginning of the "suspicious message follows ...
From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>"Farshad Torabi" [address removed]
<bold>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Fw: [LF] Runge-Kutta 4 (or 4-5 adaptive)
Fortran 90 code</bold></color>
Date sent: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:54:47 PDT</color>
This message has attachments; click 'Attachment' to see them.
begin 644 Happy99.exe
<<lots of stuff follows>
************************************************** ******************
From: "Farshad Torabi" [address removed]
To: "Fortran" [address removed]
Date sent: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:41:31 +0330
Subject: Fw: [LF] Runge-Kutta 4 (or 4-5 adaptive) Fortran 90 code
<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>As I know this kind of routines are all over the world in recepies.<bigger>
<smaller>For example you can find it in FORTRAN Power Station fron MicroSoft<bigger>
<smaller>Recepies guid. This routine works well i checked it myself<bigger>
<smaller>(See MSN)<bigger>
<smaller>Farschad<bigger>
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