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Virus (disguiesed as PKZIP3.0)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Franco)
Thu Mar 28 19:47:55 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:42:19 -0500
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From: Paul Franco <paul.franco@PERI.COM>
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From: Cliff Lawley <cliffl@nucleus.com>
Subject: Virus
Thought you guys might be interested in this.
Cliff
>Hi,
>
>This may just be another hoax but I thought I would let you all in on
>it. It's easy not to download a file so better to be safe than
>sorry.
>
>>Subject: Virus Alert
>>
>> 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, the virus will wipe your hard disk
>> and affect modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremelly
>> destructive virus and there is not yet a way of cleaning up this one.
>>
>> Repeat: Do not download any file with the name PKZIP300 --
>> regardless of the extension.
>
>Again...I have been unable to confirm this information.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
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