Hello ECOFEMers! While this may seem tangential, maintaing your e-mail contacts could be considered an "environmental" issue. The concept of "viruses" invading the bodies (!) of technological machines is fascinating on its own. For those who use www and ftp, this may spare you additional trips to the computer "healer". This is the first warning I've received about this--and I can't verify its "authenticity", but I tend to invoke the precautionary principle in such cases! Be safe.... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Please pass this on... Subject: FW: New and Dangerous Viruspp For your information ... DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION WARNING!!!!! Read the following and take note for those of you who access the web and ftp sites. . . BEWARE! Notify your friends and family and total strangers too!!! We don't want to deal with anything like this what-so-ever!!! 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" (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 NOT yet a way of cleaning up this one. REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION Richard D. Richins College of Engineering University of California, Riverside ************************************ Stefanie S. Rixecker Centre for Resource Management/ Department of Resource Management Lincoln University Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (64) (03) 325-2811 x8377 Fax: (64) (03) 325-3841 ************************************
