The official message shown below was distributed today to
employees within the Department of Energy by DOE's computer
helpdesk officials. Employees in DOE who use internet often
have learned to take such messages from these people very
seriously. You may be want to consider taking it seriously
too, and passing it on to others who may have data that
could be affected by the virus.
Said with all appropriate disclaimers.
James R. Beall, Ph.D.
Manager Health Effects Research
HELSRD
US DOE
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******************* For your information ********************
There is a new virus on the Internet. Below is information regard-
ing the PKZIP300 virus.
*** DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION ***
A 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 clean and
affect modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive
virus and there is NO way of cleaning up this one or recovering
destroyed data.