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"Virus Hoax:
Malicious Code Example"
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PKZ300 Warning
The PKZ300 Trojan is a real Trojan program, but the initial warning
about it was released over a year ago. For information pertaining to
PKZ300 Trojan reference CIAC Notes issue 95-10, at
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes10.shtml that was released in
June of 1995. The warning itself, on the other hand, is gaining
urban legend status. There has been an extremely limited number of
sightings of this Trojan and those appeared over a year ago. Even
though the Trojan warning is real, the repeated circulation of the
warning is a nuisance. Individuals who need the current release of
PKZIP should visit the PKWare web page at http://www.pkware.com.
CIAC recommends that you DO NOT recirculate the warning about this
particular Trojan.
The following is the true warning about PKZ300 from the PKWare web
site: !!! PKZIP Trojan Horse Version - (Originally Posted May 1995)
!!!
It has come to the attention of PKWARE that a fake version of PKZIP
is being distributed as PKZ300B.ZIP or PKZ300.ZIP. It is not an
offical version from PKWARE and it will attempt to erase your hard
drive if run. It attempts to perform a deletion of all the
directories of your current drive. If you have any information as to
the creators of this trojan horse, PKWARE would be extremely
interested to hear from you. If you have any other questions about
this fake version, please e-mail support@pkware.com
Copyright 2004 by Jay Jennings
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