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Re: **New and Dangerous Computer Virus** (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Tue Apr 2 17:21:01 1996

Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 14:39:17 -0500
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@paladin.com>
To: Juergen Bund <bund@ccg.uc.pt>
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

Juergen Bund wrote:
> 
> 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

(Re: PKZip trojan)

Confirmed. It's old, too. See http://www.pkware.com; there's a note
somewhere on their page about it as well.

I'm sure others will confirm it, too. (Note: this virus is at least 3
years old, it's been floating around BBS' for quite some time...)

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