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Zlatko Virus hoax

The original hoax message appeared in May, 2000, and it was written in German. Here's the translated (thanks to Uwe Hennig) hoax contents:

 Subject: VIRUS Warning Zlatko.exe

 Please forward this email to all people you know and who have
 access to the internet. Maybe you have received a screen-saver
 "ZLATKO" in a file "Zlatko.exe" via email. Do not open under any
 circumstances!!!!!!! Delete it immediately. If you open this
 file you will loose all the files on your PC, your harddisk will
 be erased completely and the person who has sent you the email
 will get access to your internet-name and the corresponding
 password. This virus went into circulation on Sunday and it is
 very dangerous.

 Please mail this warning to everyone in your address book. AOL
 has confirmed that this virus is extremely dangerous and that
 there is no anti-virus-software available yet that is able to
 destroy it. Please forward this email to all of your colleagues
 and friends.

There is a variant of this hoax message in English:

 There is a new and very dangerous virus in the net, since Sunday
 may 7 under the name of: ZLATKO.EXE. Whenever you get a email
 with this name/attachment delete it immediately (from the
 deleted items to) otherwise your hard disk will be completely
 destroyed.

We have not seen any samples of ZLATKO.EXE file so far and we have no confirmation about the existance of the malware type of virus described. So if you receive a warning about Zlatko virus, please ignore it and do not pass it on. If you ever run into a file named ZLATKO.EXE sent as an e-mail attachment, please forward it to F-Secure for analysis.