[gxccny1@llwnet.ll.pbs.org: FYI Virus Alert (fwd)]

[Carole Perla An Wang MS <cperla@K12.UCS.UMASS.EDU>]

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    From: gxccny1@llwnet.ll.pbs.org (Sheila Gersh)
    To: cperla@k12.ucs.umass.edu
    Subject: FYI Virus Alert (fwd)
    Date: Thu, 09 Jun


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    >From justin!bgumail.bgu.ac.il!conteduc Thu Jun  9 19:11:56 1994
    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 20:02:37 +0300 (IDT)
    From: Denis Weintraub  <conteduc@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
    Subject: FYI Virus Alert (fwd)
    To: Sheila Gersh <gxccny1@llwnet.ll.pbs.org>
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    Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 17:45:11 +0300
    From: Yossi Zana & Marise Costa de Mello <zana@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
    To: Multiple recipients of list BGUCOM-L <BGUCOM-L@BGUVM.BGU.AC.IL>
    Subject: FYI Virus Alert (fwd)

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    Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 13:20:13 -0700
    From: John Rutherfurd <johnr%WINDOW.DNET@taunivm.tau.ac.il>
    To: Multiple recipients of list BRAS-CON <BRAS-CON@frmop11.bitnet>
    Subject: FYI Virus Alert

    A Virus has been discovered on Internet that is disguised as
    CD-ROM shareware.

    Unknown hackers have illegally put the Chinon name on a
    destructive shareware file and released it on the Internet. This catastrophi
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    virus is named "CD-IT". -- DO NOT DOWNLOAD. IT WILL CORRUPT YOUR
    HARD DRIVE.  The program, allegedly a shareware PC utility that will
    convert an ordinary CD-ROM drive into a CD-Recordable (CD-R)
    device, which is technically impossible, instead destroys critical system
    files on a user's hard drive. The program also immediately
    crashes the CPU, forces the user to reboot and stays in memory.

    Widest dissemination is requested.






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Carole Perla                            cperla@k12.ucs.umass.edu
An Wang Math/Science Middle School      (508) 937-7682
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