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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: WUARCHIVE CLAIMS PKZIP/UNZIP 2.04c IS A HACK
- Message-ID: <bontchev.726350379@fbihh>
- Keywords: pkzip pkunzip hack
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1993Jan5.161658.3154@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <815@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 19:59:39 GMT
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- hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
-
- > Has anybody determined whether this was a real infection, or
- > a false report from the virus scanner?
-
- Yes, several people, including myself. IT IS *NOT* AN INFECTION. It is
- a false positive of an out-of-date scanner. Even a recent version of
- the same scanner DOES NOT report any viruses.
-
- > Can someone post a UNIX "sum pkz204c.exe" result so we can
- > tell if we've got the good one or the bad one?
-
- I already posted VALIDATE checksums for it, but OK, here is the result
- of the Unix sum:
-
- ~/tmp>sum pkz204c.exe
- 36332 185
-
- Hope this helps to reduce the rumors.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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