I do not know if it's true, but be warned:
>From: Rich Carpenter
>To: Frederick Shaul (3Dlabs); Ace Van Horn (Acuity); Ron Gaither
>(Camco-GM);
>Matt Welker (ElectroGig-MI); Dave Dippon (FirstDay); Dave Hurst
>(FirstDay);
>Jason Gress (Intervision); Steve Bos (Intervision); Del Hunter
>(NeTpower);
>John Casu (NeTpower); Rael Morris (NeTpower)
>Subject: new virus alert
>Date: Tuesday, October 15, 1996 3:46PM
>
>REGARDING new virus alert
>
>
>This came our way today and we wanted to forward it to everyone we could.
>Happy
>computing.
>
>
>PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW.
>
>DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF EXTENSION.
>
>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" compressed files. DO
>NOT DOWNLOAD THIS FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!! If you install or
>expand the file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect
>modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus &
>there is NOT yet a way of cleaning this one up.
>
>The latest version of PKZIP is version 2.04g.
>
--Harald Skotnes