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A correction concerning the message from Diane Mchuchison and her comment about the Trojan virus (believe me, Diane and all... I've been running my own BBS for over four years and in this industry we call it a VIRUS) and the latest PKWARE'S "PKZIP" program. The current legitimate version of PKZIP.EXE is 2.04g, NOT 3.04g as Diane stated. PKWARE has had this version on the market for over 2 years... possibly three. There is NO PKZIP.EXE with an extension in the 300's.(except for the bogus Trojan virus one) You should be using (if you use Pkzip as an archiever) PKZIP204G.EXE Barb Mallut, [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf of Diane Mchutchison Sent: Thursday, April 18, 1996 11:57 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: Virus Warning. 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.