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worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) writes:

>  I have received several requests for me to post this.  It is a copy of
>some e-mail I received on approximately 10-15-92.  I circulated a few copies
>around at the time, and most people regarded it as a hoax.

It is.   There is a virus called Proto-T, but it is just a variant of the
Civil War II virus, and was detected as such (at least by some anti-virus
programs such as my own F-PROT) when it was discovered.  The virus found in
some hacked versions of PkZip is a different one - totally unrelated.

There is nothing at all remarkable about this virus, and the author of the
original posting is either trying to spread disinformation or just simply
does not know the slightest thing about viruses.

This is just one of the 1500+ viruses that are not likely to affect anybody.

There have been rumours recently of other viruses named Proto-T, but as far
as I can see there is nothing at all to worry about.

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Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801