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- From: dboer@let.rug.nl (Ale de Boer)
- Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:33:56 GMT
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- In article <3546@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> 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.
- This seems a hoax. I tested the download against four checkers, none
- came up positive. I only got some complaints from f-prot about
- self-modifying code in three of the programs. I have been contacted
- by Ron Dippold, the uploader of the file, and according to him the
- presumably false alarm may be due to a new version of PKLITE being
- used for file compression.
- >
- >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.
- It is of course possible that some hacker overwrote Ron's upload. I
- downloaded at 13:39 local time, and none of my scanners come up positive.
-
- >Clearly some smart cracker have used their chance. It might take ages before
- >everyone has a reliable PKZIP 2.0x. We can just hope the authenticy
- >verification in PKZIP 2.0x will be strong enough to remove this
- >problem in the future.
- The file I got did display -AV codes while unpacking
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