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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:27:45 GMT
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- nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- >According to warning messages on wuarchive.wustl.edu the PKZIP 2.04c
- >is a virus infected version. The virus detected is the "Maltese Amoeba"
- >one.
-
- >Unclear is if there is a real PKZIP 2.0x which has been infected 10
- >seconds after release or that there is just a cracked new 1.93a version.
- >PKWARE has promised to release a new version 5 jan so there might also be
- >a real one.
-
- >Clearly some smart cracker have used their chance. It might take ages before
-
- Look, the version I uploaded to wuarchive was downloaded not 5 minutes
- before directly from the PKWare BBS. It was not executed before
- upload, nor were any new files executed (it was all done in the same
- terminal program session). Note also that the files being tagged as
- "infected" by Norton AV 2.0 are the ones in the archive. If some
- "cracker" did something to the files inside the Authentication
- Validated PKZIP file pkz204c.exe, he did it before PKWare released it.
- --
- As soon as everybody chooses the wrong side, it then, by some miracle,
- becomes the right side.
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