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Subject: [Fwd: fwd: Trojan Horse Virus]
From: ky1h@berkshire.net (David Robbins)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 21:59:28 +0000
ab5tv@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> 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,

as recently noted on other reflectors, this is an OLD trojan horse. 
also,
it is NOT a virus.  A virus replicates itself, this thing just formats
hard
drives and is gone.

> so named as to give the iimpression 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

don't download anything unless you know what it is and trust the source!

> WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect modems at 14.4 and higher.  This

how in the world can a piece of software affect a modem????  unless of
course
it is one of those fancy reprogrammable dsp modems and this thing knows
how
to wipe its program.  this claim is almost as bad as the one with the
good times
hoax.


> is an extremely destructive virus & there is NOT yet a way of cleaning this
> one up.

of course it can't be cleaned up, once its done its thing theres nothing
left
to clean up!

>                 PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW

please don't, its been around enough times already!

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