Virus alert!

Simon Brown (zcfbm25@ucl.ac.uk)
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:26:28 +0000

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>From: ucfbawh@ucl.ac.uk (Andy Howard)
>Subject: Virus alert!
>
>DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300!
>
>
> 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 and there is NOT yet a way of cleaning this one
> up.
> PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW!
>
>A.Howard, a.howard@ucl.ac.uk
>
>Postgraduate Unit of Micropalaeontology,
>Department of Geological Sciences,
>University College London,
>Gower Street,
>London WC1E 6BT.
>
>
>
Yours sincerely (with peace and love),

Simon Brown
s.j.brown@ucl.ac.uk
University College London
Geology (3rd year)