In addition to a web interface to read the emails Bush also offered the unedited Microsoft Outlook files. Containing all the infected e-mail attachments were discovered. As proved several emails from the 2001 database file "Happy99.exe" contain, this was a worm for Windows 95, 98 and NT systems, also known as "Ska", which first appeared in 1999, as reports IT World.
In addition, a Visual Basic worm called "JS / Poop" and found the highly contagious email worms "Sircam" and "Badtrans".Both worms knew in 2001 a large number of computers to infect via email. Meanwhile, the Outlook files are removed as well as the personal information of people who emailed with Bush. Whether Bush at the time also was infected by the malware is unknown.
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