I've copied it to several Venusians, and to the PPS list.
Rgds.,
Alan Mills at Venus Internet Ltd, 24 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NJ, UK
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 16:03:01 +0100 (BST)
From: Dr. Y. J. K. Edwards <yjedward@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>
To: "Dr. Alan Mills" <a.mills@venus.co.uk>
Subject: Just in case, avoid PKZIP300 (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 15:31:51 +0100
From: HGMP Computing Services Help Desk x4520 <helpdesk@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>
To: all@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Subject: Just in case, avoid PKZIP300
>>
>> Subject: New and Dangerous Virus For your information ...
>>
>> DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE
>> EXTENSION (see attached)
>>
>>
>> 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. 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.
>>
>> Richard D. Richins
>> College of Engineering
>> University of California, Riverside
>>