tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 25 07:00:54 1996
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Virus Warning
- From: KATIE MONCELSI <[email protected]>
- Subject: Virus Warning
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:55:02 -0400
This is not about the Klingon language, but I just got a warning about a
two viruses on the internet and I thought that the people on this list
would like to hear about it. Please do not get angry that this is not
about the Klingon language. I think this is important enough that I
can post this.
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>>Subject: Internet Viruses
>>Author: David Link at POLIC
>>Date: 6/24/96 11:11 AM
>>
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>>If you recieve E-Mail from the Internet or "go fishing" for
>>interesting programs or files, beware of the following:
>>1. Someone is sending a E-Mail message called "Good Times" across the
>>Internet.
>>DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY. It has a virus that
>rewrites
>>your hard drive deleting anything on your drive. The FCC released a
>warning
>>last Wednesday. It was engineered by a user on AMERICA ON LINE. Not
>only will
>>it kill your hard drive it can also create a constantly running loop
>that
>>could severly damage your processor. A good policy is if you recieve
>mail
>>with an unkown sender attached to it, delete it. Don't opn it.
>>
>>2. DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE
>>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" (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 PKZIP3OO REGARDLESS OF THE
>>EXTENSION.
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Katie
B'Elanna