This is correct, there is a trojan horse virus as described. But the Good Times virus is indeed a hoax (although you could write a javascript virus that encapsulated such a file - one still has to actually run it). > 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 William Affleck-Asch | The above is my personal opinion only and does not Seattle | necessarily reflect the opinions of any of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | many organizations I belong to or represent. :-)
