[1770] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: **New and Dangerous Computer Virus** (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juergen Bund)
Tue Apr 2 06:09:14 1996
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:40:08 +0100
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Juergen Bund <bund@ccg.uc.pt>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
At 00:21 01/04/1996 -0400, you wrote:
Anybody can really *confirm* this story? To me, it seems more like a copy of
the "Good Times" for the 1st of April (which we had yesterday ...).
Juergen
>I don't know if this is a load of crap or not so feel free to believe as
>much of it as you want.
>
>>***Do not download any file named PKZIP300.ZIP regardless of the extension.***
>>
>>WARNING!!!!! Read the following and take note for those of you whohave
>>access to the web and FTP sites ... BE WARE!!! Notify your friends and
>>family and total strangers too!!! No one wants to deal with this
>>what-so-ever.
>>
>>A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the name
>>PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a new
>>version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" (compress) files.
>>
>>DO NOT download this file under any circumstances!!! If you install or
>>expand this file, this virus will wipe your hard drive clean and effect
>>modems 14.4 or higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and as of yet
>>there is no way of cleaning this one up.
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