internet virus alert (fwd)

Pilar Rivas (csmem2@ABELLO.SECI.UCHILE.CL)
Mon, 13 Jun 1994 00:13:14 -0500

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From: Carol Prorok <CVP@SRUVM.SRU.EDU>
Subject: FWD>PC useres beware / viru (fwd)
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Comments: Originally-From: Barton C Prorok <bcpst3+@pitt.edu>

pass this on to everyone that you know! carol prorok/geogfem subscriber

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This is something you should be aware of. Pass it along.

Argonne National Laboratory E-Mail Memo Time: 11:03
AM
Subject: PC useres beware / virus Date:
6/9/94
According to this Internet note, beware of a destructive virus called CD-IT.
This is disguised as a PC shareware product, and will destroy the contents
of a hard disk. Details below:

Paul
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>Date: Wednesday, May 25, 1994 7:31:08 EDT
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>----- >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 o 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.
>>