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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: PKzip 2.04c and Norton Anti-Virus
- Message-ID: <bontchev.726257155@fbihh>
- Keywords: PKZIP, NAV, Norton, Virus
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <bartlett.39.726254874@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:05:55 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- bartlett@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Scott W. Bartlett) writes:
-
- > FILE: PKZ204C.ZIP from wuarchive /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS (1/5/93)
-
- > 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
-
- It is almost certainly a false positive. Both SCAN 99, VirX, and TbAV
- -are- able to detect Maltese Amoeba reliably. I can say more only
- after I have analysed the actual code. Could somebody send it to me,
- since it is obviously no more available at wuarchive? I'll post the
- results of the analysis here. Thanks.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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