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- From: bartlett@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Scott W. Bartlett)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: PKzip 2.04c and Norton Anti-Virus
- Keywords: PKZIP, NAV, Norton, Virus
- Message-ID: <bartlett.39.726254874@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:27:54 GMT
- Sender: news@oasys.dt.navy.mil
- Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
- Lines: 20
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- FILE: PKZ204C.ZIP from wuarchive /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS (1/5/93)
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- VSHIELD/SCAN v99: report no virus present.
-
- Norton Anti-Virus (from Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0) dated 3/23/92:
- reports variant of the Maltese Amb. virus in the
- PKUNZIP, PKZIPFIX, and ZIP2EXE files.
-
- ThunderByte/VirX/FluProt+: report no virus, but that non-standard exe-
- headers are used in the files indicating a
- programming bug or possible virus.
- (note- I do not usually use these three virus
- detectors so the correct answers may vary).
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- PKLITE 1.15/CHKLITE: Reports files compressed with PKLITE 1.20 (higher
- version than generally available).
-
- ** POSSIBLE CAUSE ** PKLite 1.20 generating false-positive alarm in NAV.
-
- ** OTHER POSSIBILITES ** open for suggestions....
-