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"Patrick J. Haney" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Miami's Political Science faculty <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:09:47 -500
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DOPS:
Bill M.  found this on a listserver; we are hoping that this message
doesn't have a virus on it (wouldn't that be a slick move?).
 
>     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.
>
>          PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW... NOW. >
>

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