Cohousing-L Mailing List: Wicked new internet virus: PKZIP300.zip file

>As confirmed by MS security:
>
>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 and affect modems at 14.4 and
>higher.  This is an extremely destructive virus and there
>is not yet a way of cleaning up this one.
>
> Repeat:  Do not download any file with the name PKZIP300
>regardless of the extension.

Wicked new internet virus: PKZIP300.zip file	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Rob Sandelin (Exchange) (RobsanExchange.MICROSOFT.com)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:52:11 -0600