Message-Id: <318A8F5A.5264@tu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 15:57:30 -0700
From: Anke Scheiber <ifg.ph-doc@tu-berlin.de>
To: medibib-l@uni-muenster.de
Subject: VIRUS WARNUNG: PKZIP300.ZIP
Liebe Medibib-ler,
Ich bekam diese Virus-Warnung =FCber die epidemio-L Diskussionsliste.
MfG
Anke Scheiber
TU Berlin
Inst. f. Gesundheitswissenschaften
Vorstudie Public Health Dokumentation
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From: Rita Altamore <altamore@u.washington.edu>
>From: Murray R. Falk, INTERNET:falkm@cadvision.com
>DATE: 4/22/96 9:51 AM
>For your information ...
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DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION!!! =
WARNING!!!!! Read the following and take note for those
of you who access the web and ftp sites. . . BE WARE!!! Notify
your friends and family and total strangers too!!! We don't want to deal=
with anything like this what-so-ever!!!
We work closely with the military and received this message from a
very reliable source in DC this morning. 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" (compress) files. DO NOT DOWNLOAD this
file under any circumstances!!! If you install or expand this file, the
virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect modems at 14.4 and
higher.
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This is an extremely destructive virus and there is NOT yet a way
of cleaning up this one.
REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300
REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION!!!
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According to several reliable sources there is a deadly virus on
the Internet. This is NOT a hoax!
WHAT:
Virus Alert: PKZIP 3.0 Trojan Loose on the Internet
BACKGROUND: A trojan (virus) program, PKZIP 3.0, which is advertised as =
an updated version of the popular compression utility PKZIP, is
currently being distributed on the Internet. Please note that this
trojan is REAL and DESTRUCTIVE. Once executed, this program
will destroy data on your hard drive; there's no stopping it.
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According to PKWARE, makers of PKZIP, the only released
versions of PKZIP are: 1.10, 1.93, 2.04c, 2.04e and 2.04g. All other
versions currently circulating on the Internet are suspect and should not=
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be used.
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ACTION REQUIRED:
> Please do not download or execute any files that are named
> PKZ300B.EXE, PKZ300B.ZIP, PKZIP300.ZIP, PKZIP300.EXE, etc.
> from the Internet or other external source.
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> FIX:
> We are not aware of a fix as of this date (short of
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