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Re: **New and Dangerous Computer Virus** (fwd)
I recieved a letter this morning with an attachment from PKWare and they
have confirmed that the virus does actually exist.
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, 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
>
> >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.
>
> --
> * Juergen Bund (bund@ccg.uc.pt) | CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica *
> * Tel. : ++351-39-702646 | Rua de Mocambique, 17 R/C Esq. *
> * Fax : ++351-39-702647 | 3030 Coimbra, Portugal *
> * http://www.ccg.uc.pt/~bund | http://www.ccg.uc.pt *
>
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