Virus warning

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From: Benner Timothy Charles
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 00:00

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Fellow students and staff,

     I recently received the following computer virus warning, and I am 
passing it along to you.  It pays to be careful.

Tim Benner, President
United Government of Graduate Students
University of Colorado at Boulder

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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, the  
virus will wipe your hard disk and affect modems at 14.4 and  
higher.  This is an extremely destructive virus and there  
is not yet a way of cleaning up this one. 

Repeat:  Do not download any file with the name PKZIP300  
regardless of the extension.Thanks so much!

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Date: 1996/04/06
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