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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: I have uploaded PKZip 2.04c to wuarchive
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:21:16 GMT
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- madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
- >>> I have uploaded PKZip 2.04c to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
- >>> pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory. It's pkz204c.exe and pkz204c.txt.
-
- >Well, what's there now are three empty directories with the names:
-
- >Jan 5 09:54 WARNING_pkz204c.exe_contains_Maltese_Amoeba_virus
- >Jan 5 09:57 pkz204c.exe_contains_Maltese_Amoeba_Virus__DO__NOT__USE__
- >Jan 5 09:55 pkz204c.exe_is_a_hack_DO_NOT_USE_
-
- Here's what I got from Scott Bartlett:
-
- I downloaded the file PKZ204C.EXE from wuarchive this morning
- (1/5/93). I rountinely run VSHIELD v99 on my machine and no virus
- were detected. However, a fellow worker tried the programs on a
- machine that has Norton Anti-Virus (part of the Norton Desktop for
- Windows 2.0 release) running and it reported that the PKUNZIP,
- PKZIPFIX, and ZIP2EXE files were infected with a strain of the
- 'Maltese Ambebo' virus. I then ran SCAN v99 on the PK files with no
- virus reported. Likewise FluProtect (FP_206A.ZIP), ThunderByte
- (TBAV205.ZIP/VSIG9214.ZIP), and VirX (VIRX26.ZIP) reported no virus
- present, but one did flag the files as having non-standard exe-headers
- that could be either a program bug or a virus. The PKZIP files are
- compressed with PKLITE 1.20 (which is more recent than the
- PKLTE115.ZIP generally available) and this new exe compression could
- be causing the false-positive reading. I will look for other possible
- answers, but would appreciate if you could pass along anything you
- might see or hear (I do monitor comp.compression and
- comp.archives.msdos.announce). Thanks for posting the original file
- though.
-
- P.S. All indications are that it is a false-positive alarm. But I
- thought you might be curious/interested in the possiblity of a Virus.
-
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