On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Wayne Pillion wrote:

After the reaction Panda got when he reported the "Good times virus", i'm not
sure if i should tell people about this, but at my work, we just got a 
message through official channels about a new trojan horse virus on the net
called PKZIP300.  This virus maskarades as PKZIP software, but in will actually
wipe your hard disk and affect modems 14.4 and higher (i don't know how it
would affect modems, but that's what the memo says..)  It  is also supposed
to be so new that most anti-viral software does not effect it.  This memo
says not to download any file with the name PKZIP300.  Just  thought i 
should get the word out because the info seems very reliable.

Hi All,

  I don't know where this info is coming from, but it's rather old.  I 
don't mean to sound un-appreaciative, I truly do appreciate your efforts 
to help inform users about virii.  

  The pkzip300.zip trojan is old and in many cases, would not even be 
executed if it has been scanned thoroughly before and after 
decompression.  There is also the concept of obtaining it from the 
rightful software writers of the pk-series of software.  Latest reported 
version for pkzip, I believe, is 2.04g

  Wing. [ In case some people don't know, there is a text based virus 
          that will spread via word 6.0 But that's not overly important. ]
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