ALERT! Virus on Internet

[VM at ig.cas.cz]

Budte opatrni ..........
                      Vera Marvanova
                      vm at ig.cas.cz

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Date sent:      Wed, 8 Jun 1994 11:41:00 WET
Send reply to:  Bitnet/Internet Help Resource <HELP-NET%TEMPLEVM.BITNET at earn.cvut.cz>
From:           Guido Cosulich <COSULICH%AREA.TRIESTE.IT at earn.cvut.cz>
Subject:        ALERT! Virus on Internet
To:             Multiple recipients of list HELP-NET <HELP-NET at TEMPLEVM.BITNET>

Hi,
I received this mail from win3-l and I think it could help somebody, so I
repost to the list.
Ciao    Guido

cosulich at area.trieste.it

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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 catastrophic
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.

Frank Potter
CSSO


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