Re: Virus Warning !!!!

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From: STEPHEN CHAPMAN
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 00:00

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In article <327f8409.9764521@news.inet.tele.dk>, =?iso-8859-
1?q?J=F8rn_Hendriksen?= <pappen@post3.tele.dk> writes
>Cable&Wireless in the US is issuing the following warning to its
>staff.
>Regards
>Jim Simpson
>******************
>DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF EXTENSION.
>
>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," or compress, files.  DO
>NOT
>DOWNLOAD THIS FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!  If you install or expand
>the file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect modems
>14.4
>and higher.  This is an extremely destructive virus & there is NOT yet
>a way
>of cleaning this one up.
>
> PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW .
>**********************
>

-- 
STEPHEN CHAPMAN

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From: STEPHEN CHAPMAN <cranmere@cranmere.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Virus Warning !!!!
Date: 1996/11/08
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