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Article #24Re: Virus Warning !!!!
From: Peter Gravesen
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:00
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J�rn Hendriksen wrote: > > 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 . > ********************** Thanks for the warning. Keep on !!!
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