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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c is shipping...
- Message-ID: <3550@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:53:02 GMT
- References: <1i9nvsINN2je@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan4.165713.19120@uwasa.fi> <1i9s3lINN91u@uwm.edu> <bontchev.726171229@fbihh>
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- In <bontchev.726171229@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
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- >caeser@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert Michael Trotter) writes:
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- >> Do not trust or use any version of PKZIP other than 1.10,1.93, and
- >> 2.04c. All other versions currently circulating on BBS's are fakes.
- >> These fake programs should be considered hostile and not be trusted,
- >> they may contain viruses, trojans, or other tricks.
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- >Seems about the right time for the virus writers to release yet
- >another 1.93 hack and to call it "2.04c"... :-) Just kidding...
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- Since the PKZIP 2.04c is infected with the Maltese Amoeba virus someone
- might have actually done this ..... :-(
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- >Regards,
- >Vesselin
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