Klarinet Archive - Posting 000365.txt from 1996/11

From: Roger Shilcock
Subj: Re: Virus Warning <fwd> (fwd)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:11:08 -0500

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:18:54 -0800
From: Richard Johnson <rjohnso%PACIFIER.COM@-----.UK>
Subject: Re: Virus Warning <fwd>

We in our office were warned of this, along with another virus of similar
insidiousness. If you receive e-mail with the subject heading "Good
Times", DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE! Delete any message with this subject
without reading. Also do not download a file named Good Times. I forget
what the virus does, but it isn't pretty.

On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Cheryl McClure wrote:

(snip )
> >> "DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF
> >> EXTENSTION.
> >>
> >> 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" compressed 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 at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus
> >> and there is NOT yet a way of cleaning this one up.
> >>
> >> PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW"
> >>

For the last time - we hope ..
The GOOD TIMES virus OES NOT EXIST - it is a HOAX. There is a LOT aof
stuff on the list already about this. I don't know about PKZIP300, but it
looks inherently suspicious anyway.
Roger Shilcock