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Re: Virus Warning !!!!

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From: Toke Eskildsen
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:00
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pappen@post3.tele.dk (J�rn Hendriksen) 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 .
> **********************
> 


Skal vi nu til det igen? Du postede helt sikkert dette i god tro, men
det er nu ikke mere end et par uger siden denne advarsel sidst blev
posted p� de danske nyhedsgrupper.

Advarslen er god nok, den er bare lidt gammel!

-- 
Toke Eskildsen, <URL:http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~darkwing/>
I am the ring that lines your tub.
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From: Toke Eskildsen <darkwing@niobium.daimi.aau.dk>
Subject: Re: Virus Warning !!!!
Date: 1996/11/05
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