I have just been told that my computer is probably infected with the Happy99 virus. My advice is that it’s a worm/trojan type virus, whereby it plants itself on my hard drive and sits there until it corrupts it. The awful part is that it can attach itself to my outgoing email without my knowledge. My anti-virus software, which has been updated recently, did not even pick up this worm virus. What can I do to eradicate it?

If your computer has been infected with this virus I suggest you do not send email to anyone until you have eliminated the virus from your system and you do not go onto the internet either (if the virus is a trojan, then the person who gave you the virus could cause malicious damage to your computer). The one thing that you can do, is to go onto the internet to download a piece of software called ‘The Cleaner’. This software should be able to eradicate the trojan on your system and others as well. You can download it from: www.homestead.com/moosoft/cleaner.html. Also if you have the time I suggest you download McAfee VirusScan. This is a very good piece of software and can pick up most viruses (you can also download updates each month for it). It can be downloaded from most large shareware sites.