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A minor correction: the current version of PKZIP is version 2.04g. PKWare corporation (the makers of PKZIP) has said they will never release a version with the 3.00 number to avoid confusion with this virus/Trojan Horse thingy. It has been around for some time, and I verified that it was not a hoax by contacting the folks at PKWare and asking about it around 2 years ago. -- garyZ ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Virus Warning. Author: "Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network" <[log in to unmask]> at INTERNET Date: 4/18/96 11:37 AM 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.