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- From: joeo@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (joseph.m.orost)
- Subject: PKZIP TROJAN HORSE
- Organization: Echo Logic
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:07:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.110715.10678@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Summary: erases all your files
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- I read this today in the Bell Labs E-News:
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- >>> PKZIP TROJAN HORSE -- A Trojan Horse in bogus versions of PKZIP
- archiving software released to bulletin board systems has been discovered.
- PCs running PC-DOS or MS-DOS are vulnerable to attempts to erase all the
- files on the hard disk.
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- I don't have any more information.
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