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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: WUARCHIVE CLAIMS PKZIP/UNZIP 2.04c IS A HACK
- Message-ID: <rdippold.726351902@cancun>
- Keywords: pkzip pkunzip hack
- Sender: news@qualcomm.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cancun.qualcomm.com
- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <1993Jan5.161658.3154@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <815@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:25:02 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) 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?
-
- It was false. PKWare has made a post on the "infection." Here goes
- again...
-
- I downloaded this from the PKWare BBS and within five minutes was
- calling our Unix system and then ftping the file to wuarchive. I ran
- no programs on my system between one call and the next. It was the
- real thing. Someone, somewhere, using outdated software, got a false
- "infected" alarm. Apparently, rather than checking it with other
- virus software, they decided that it _must_ be infected, posted a
- couple apocolyptic messages on wuarchive about it, and deleted the
- program. Others started posting that a "malicious hacker" was
- distributing another fake version of PKZip.
-
- At this time I would like to invite the people who mailed me extremely
- nasty mail threatening to get me fired, etc. for attempting to
- distribute a virus to find a sharp pen, lower themselves on it, and
- sit and spin. Thanks to all those who sent rational mail trying to
- figure out what was happening.
-
-
- >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
-
- You might check your mail address, I tried to send you mail at several
- addresses yesterday but kept getting bounced. The sum is "36332 185".
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