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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: WUARCHIVE CLAIMS PKZIP/UNZIP 2.04c IS A HACK
- Keywords: pkzip pkunzip hack
- Message-ID: <815@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:11:15 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.161658.3154@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>
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- In article <1993Jan5.161658.3154@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp) writes:
- >The title says it all. WUARCHIVE@WUSTL.EDU warned me NOT to use the "new"
- >pkzip/unzip because it is contaminated with the Maltese Amoeba virus.
- >
- >Can someone *please* tell me what the f**k is going on and WHO put that new
- >hacked version there.
- >
- >Or is someone just trying to freak us up and place a phony virus message there?
-
- Has anybody determined whether this was a real infection, or
- a false report from the virus scanner? The one I downloaded
- had a file along with it that said that only one scanner of
- about three reported the infection.
-
- Can someone post a UNIX "sum pkz204c.exe" result so we can
- tell if we've got the good one or the bad one? Or better
- yet let us know where there is an ftp site w/ a guaranteed
- uninfected version??
-
- -Richard Hartman
- hartman@ulogic.COM
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