Theos-Talk Archives (September 1996 Message tl00355)

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> From: Ron Secord <cordman@ime.net>
> To: enhance-users@enhance.co.uk
> Subject: (Fwd) ATTENTION - New Virus On The Internet - ATTENTION (fwd)
> Date: Saturday, September 28, 1996 6:07 AM
>
> Hello all, just thought I'd pass this tidbit of info on in case some
> don't know about it. Received it today (9/28/96)
> Regards, Ron
>
> Date:          Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:53:02 -1000 (HST)
> From:          Christopher Erice <chrise@chrise.com>
> Subject:       ATTENTION - New Virus On The Internet - ATTENTION (fwd)
>
> Hi All,
>
> We received the following message from our server about a virus on the
> internet.  Please read and take note.
>
>
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>
>      DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF EXTENSION. 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" compressed files. DO
>      NOT DOWNLOAD THIS FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!! If you install or
>      expand the file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect
>      modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus
and
>      there is NOT yet a way of cleaning this one up.
>
>      PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW.
>
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