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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c is shipping...
- Message-ID: <3563@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 18:40:26 GMT
- References: <1i9nvsINN2je@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan4.165713.19120@uwasa.fi> <1i9s3lINN91u@uwm.edu> <bontchev.726171229@fbihh> <3550@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <bontchev.726336820@fbihh> <3560@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <bontchev.726490438@fbihh>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
-
- >nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
-
- [about PKZIP virus reports]
-
- >> wuarchive tested the file and got a virus dection. I think it is
- >> very good they tried to notice this soon. In case the virus scanner
- >> would not have failed it coulnd't have been detected fast enough.
-
- >It was NOT wuarchive. It was somebody who downloaded the package early
- >and used an out-of-date version of NAV (2.0, instead of 2.1).
- >Wuarchive probably just decided to err on the safe side and believed
- >his reports.
-
- I didn't know that. I thought wuarchive investigated the file themselves.
- Nevertheless I believe the person finding the "virus" did the right thing
- by reporting the detection. I prefer one virus warning too much above one
- too less.
-
- >Regards,
- >Vesselin
-
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