Urgent Note - virus

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• Subject: Urgent Note - virus
• From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:20:07 +1200

Chip,
      This is definitely off-topic but perhaps should be known to all 
net users, esp. those into the ftp scene. It came from a systems 
manager here. 

Malcolm


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Please be aware of this...

Sub:    Virus (trojan Horse) PKZIP
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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"
compressed 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 at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive
virus & there is NOT yet a way of cleaning this one up.
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW.
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