No, I disagree - receiving the occasional copy of Happy is good practice for everyone. Seriously. Happy is ALMOST benign (no trojan is totally so) in that its one task in life is to propagate itself. You only catch it by running a forwarded attachment. This is a VERY stupid thing to do. There are much much worse things that you can contract by doing this. If everyone who sends happy is roundly abused (in the most gentle loving way possible of course) then they MAY get the idea before something really nasty comes along. Similarly, EVERYONE who receives Happy should just delete it and in the process add unconsciously to the mental note that bad things can happen top people who run unverified attachments. Think of it as an excellent training and inoculation exercise. RM PS - I didn't see it appear in my PICList email. _____________________________________________ What can one PIC-LISTer do? Help the hungry for free at - http://www.thehungersite.com/ Have a look - it's interesting. __________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Bertel Schmitt To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Saturday, 18 September 1999 17:19 Subject: ~!@#$% Happy again >"sintax" , relayed via sisuser@ip.co.za , uploaded a >Happy virus to this list. This is an ongoing problem and it is really >getting nauseating. People have complained to ip.co.za several times. If >they can't get their adolescent users under control, I move to disconnect >the sisuser@ip.co.za relay altogether. > >BS >