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Date sent:      Sun, 5 Jun 1994 16:58:07 EDT
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From:           Bonnie Kaplan <[log in to unmask]>
Organization:   Yale University
Subject:        virus alert
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From:         "Robert Davison, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong,
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Subject:      virus alert
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Organisation: Rank Xerox Cambridge EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK
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>To all PC users, please be aware of the following...
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>From:           FRANK H POTTER@G6HQTRS@MCAS CHERRY PT
>Subject:        INTERNET VIRUS ALERT!
>Date:           Wednesday, May 25, 1994  7:31:08 EDT
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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.
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>Widest dissemination is requested.
>
>Frank Potter
>CSSO
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