🚀 go-pugleaf

On 18 Apr 1996 06:29:19 GMT, peter.ejemyr@kreab.se (Peter Ejemyr)
wrote:

>Fick nedanst�ende meddelande av en kollega;
>
>------------
>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 (regardless of the 
>extension)! If you install or expand this file, this extremely destructive 
>virus will wipe your hard disk clean and affect your modem.
>------------
>
>N�gon som k�nner till mer om detta? 
>
>
>-- 
>Peter Ejemyr                  peter.ejemyr@kreab.se         COMMUNICATION 
>KREAB                         bus: +46  8 7234124         IS THE QUESTION 
>Skoeldungagatan 4             mob: +46 70 7234124           TO THE ANSWER 
>S-11427 Stockholm, SWEDEN     fax: +46  8 7234169                     ;-)

 VIRUS ALERT

  Security Advisory - PKZ300B Contains a Trojan Horse

  The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AUSCERT)
  has received information that a file is being distributed on the
  Internet and on various dial-up BBS systems which claims to be 
  version 3.00B of PKWARE Inc.'s shareware DOS data compression 
  utility, PKZip.

  The file is being distributed as PKZ300B.EXE and in zipped form
  as PKZ300B.ZIP. AUSCERT has confirmed that this file is a self-
  extracting archive which contains a trojan horse. AUSCERT has 
  confirmed that the trojan horse will destroy all data on the PC's 
  hard drive.

  A Trojan horse is a piece of software which claims to do one thing 
  but in reality does something different, usually something
malicious. 
  If the Trojan horse is executed, all data on the PC hard drive will 
  be destroyed. This is not a 'virus;' it cannot infect other machines

  unless it is manually run on those machines.

  Do not download or execute any file named PKZ300B.EXE or
PKZ300B.ZIP. 
  Do not execute any of the files created by PKZ300B.EXE.  PKWARE Inc.

  has confirmed that the latest release of PKZip is v2.04G. There is 
  *NO* release of a version 3.00 from PKWare.

  end message" - Posted 03/28/96 by the Clip Art Connection
      
              
       *** SYSTEM ERROR:  All things normal.... ***