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According to a corporate virus guy that I know, in regard to this virus warning, this bogus version has existed for some time. It is not a virus, but a Trojan horse, and should be deleted from all systems. The current version of PKZIP is 3.04g, and is distributed as an EXE, not z ZIP. (Kind of hard to distribute an UNZIP program that is ZIPped.) ---------- From: shalelou To: mchutchd; Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Date: Thursday, April 18, 1996 11:38AM > We just received a notice that 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. > > >Please pass this news around.