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virus warning (fwd) From: Allen Gardner (allen.gardner@utoronto.ca) Fri Apr 26 08:01:13 1996 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Allen Gardner: "Re: Amnioscentesis [sic.]" Previous message: SAVARIS@vortex.ufrgs.br: "Re: NEJM TERMPROM" Forwarded Message: From: Lilyan Ila <lilyan@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:18:45 -0400 Subject: virus warning (fwd) To: <@utoronto.ca:allen.gardner@utoronto.ca> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Frederick Connell <fredc@u.washington.edu> To: mchpost@u.washington.edu Subject: virus warning (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:13:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Rita Altamore <altamore@u.washington.edu> To: Health Services List <hserv-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: virus warning (fwd) >---------- Forwarded Message ---------- >From: Murray R. Falk, INTERNET:falkm@cadvision.com >DATE: 4/22/96 9:51 AM >For your information ... > > 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. > > 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!!! > >=========================================================== ==== > 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. > > 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 be used. > > 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. > > FIX: > We are not aware of a fix as of this date (short of > reconstructing the drive). ============================================================ == Confirmation from CDC: From: Jackson, Joe To: ALL-CEHDEH1/ATL Subject: PKZIP3 virus Date: Thursday, April 25, 1996 10:39AM This one has surfaced before but I've had enough users forward notes to me so I'll send it out to everyone again. Don't download PKZIP ver 3. There is no version 3. It is a Trojan horse virus. ============================================================ == Allen Gardner MD Genetics Oshawa General Hospital Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Next message: Allen Gardner: "Re: Amnioscentesis [sic.]" Previous message: SAVARIS@vortex.ufrgs.br: "Re: NEJM TERMPROM"

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