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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
- Message-ID: <bontchev.726428468@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <3546@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1993Jan7.154004.9009@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:41:08 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
-
- > Actually it seems that WUARCHIVE used an old virus checker which gave
- > a false positive and then went ballistic. This scares me for several
- > reasons, not only did they get a lot of people to trash perfectly good
- > versions of PKZIP (if there is such a thing) but they are checking with
- > old software which may miss current virus infections.
-
- Seems that you have not followed the events closely. It is not the
- moderator of WUARCHIVE to blame. It was somebody who has downloaded
- the file from there and has used an old version of NAV. This person
- spreaded the rumor, not the moderator of WUARCHIVE. The only problem
- with WUARCHIVE is that it provides a directory that is both world
- readable and world writable - this is certain to cause problems one
- day...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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