IP: non authenticated virus alert

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> From: Daniel Iuculano <danieli () msn com>
> To: James Bird <justjimb () net-magic net>
> Subject: Virus Alert
> Date: Tuesday, October 15, 1996 10:19 AM
>
> DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF EXTENSION.
> > 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," or compress, files.  DO NOT
> > DOWNLOAD THIS FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!  If you install or expand
> > the file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect modems
> > 14.4 and higher.  This is an extremely destructive virus & there is NOT
> > yet a way of cleaning this one up.
> >
> > PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW . >