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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.
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