INTERNET WARNING: virus or hoax
timothy l dodge
aergoth at txdirect.net
Thu Nov 7 17:45:44 PST 1996
Tim McDaniel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, dennis grace <amazing at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > Subject: Fwd: INTERNET WARNING: virus or hoax
> >
> > Greetings, Cousins,
> ...
> > >The latest hoax or a really bad virus? I thought i'd pass this on
> > >since I wasn't sure. ...
> > >> DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF EXTENSION !!!
>
> I strongly thank the originators and those passing it along for the
> dose of skepticism. Many warnings passed along nowadays are urban
> legends. (E.g., the "Good Times virus" warning uses nonsensical terms
> and simply couldn't function like that.) It's good to take such
> warnings with a grain of salt pending verification. (You certainly
> may, for prudence's sake, follow them just in case, but it's best to
> keep an open mind for new evidence.)
>
> I recall reading that PKZIP300 is indeed a bad program that destroys
> disk contents. Unfortunately, I have no citations. If I were not
> feeling lazy 8-), I'd check out the FAQ list for the Usenet newsgroup
> alt.folklore.urban; I'm 80% sure it would have a few lines on this.
>
> --
> Tim McDaniel
> Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com
> mcdaniel at mcdaniel.dallas.tx.us is wrong tool. Never use this.The aforementioned PKUNZIP version 3.0 virus is old news. There probably
will never be a version 3.0 because of this. If you see anything saying
it's PKUNZIP version 3.0 no matter the file name know it to be a trojan
horse that's been out there about 4-6 months. Any responsible site
administrator would have purged his server of any downloadable sets of
this long ago or as soon as it has come to his/her attention.
Aergoth of the Shire of Hammerhold
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