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Virus Alert



     At the risk of being embarrassed again at forward hoax virus alerts, I 
     forward the one below.  Does anyone know anything about this one other 
     than the information given below?
     
     H. Richard Lane
     hrlane@amoco.com
     
     >----------Subject:  Virus Alert    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.