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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: PKWARE Version 3.05 ?!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.090932.3346@uwasa.fi>
- Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Keywords: PKZIP305
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <Bx4x97.A3E@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <4457@winnie.fit.edu> <1992Nov23.044550.10519@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:09:32 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Nov23.044550.10519@wam.umd.edu> gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan) writes:
- >***** BEWARE ***** I remember someone at work or reading something
- >that said that PKZ305.ZIP has a virus in it!!!! It is a hacked
- >version, not released by the original publishers. The virus
- >supposedly creates lost clusters on your hard drive over a period of
- >time, eventually causing severe problems. Get rid of it...
-
- Since there are so many hacks around, the users will find the
- following information file of interest
- 40850 Nov 7 01:23 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/virus/hack1192.zip
-
- "If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
- welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
- (long, circa 29Kb), Keith Petersen (w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu) for
- SIMTEL20 information, or Craig Warren (ccw@archie.au) for Australian
- Garbo mirror information. North American users are advised first to
- search on SIMTEL20, its mirrors OAK.Oakland.Edu, ftp.uu.net, or the
- SIMTEL20 & Garbo mirror wuarchive.wustl.edu. Australian users are
- referred to archie.au, Asian to NCTUCCCA.edu.tw. Some of the
- mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the files.
- If you send email to me for the Garbo instructions and do not
- receive my reply within five days, please ask your own site's system
- manager to construct a returnable mail path for you".
-
- ..................................................................
- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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