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- From: dboer@let.rug.nl (Ale de Boer)
- Subject: Re: PKzip 2.04c and Norton Anti-Virus
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.195001.26273@let.rug.nl>
- Keywords: PKZIP, NAV, Norton, Virus
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- Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
- References: <bartlett.39.726254874@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:50:01 GMT
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- Hi Scott,
-
- Thankx for shedding some light on things. If only this idiot which
- keeps deleting Ron's and my files would own up and say what's
- troubling him. All he or she does is create directories with warnings
- which seem due to some bug in Norton Antivirus
- In article <bartlett.39.726254874@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bartlett@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Scott W. Bartlett) writes:
- >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 vary).
- >PKLITE 1.15/CHKLITE: Reports files compressed with PKLITE 1.20 (higher
- > version than generally available).
- >
- >** POSSIBLE CAUSE ** PKLite 1.20 generating false-positive alarm in NAV.
- Right as far as I'm concerned
- >** OTHER POSSIBILITES ** open for suggestions....
-
- Best, Ale.
-
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