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- From: timk@ycrdi.com (Tim King)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:56:16 EST
- Organization: Young Chang R&D Institute
- Message-ID: <01068008.n1jdvg@mfc.ycrdi.com>
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- In article <3546@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> (comp.compression), nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- >
- > According to warning messages on wuarchive.wustl.edu the PKZIP 2.04c
- > is a virus infected version. The virus detected is the "Maltese Amoeba"
- > one.
- [ . . . ]
- > Clearly some smart cracker have used their chance. It might take ages before
- > everyone has a reliable PKZIP 2.0x....
-
- My recommendation to all is that you get your PKZIP directly from PKWARE!
- For unregistered copies, one can call the PKWARE BBS. (I assume that
- PKWARE keeps tight strings on its own BBS.) All of the information
- necessary to do any of this is included in the PKZIP shareware distribution,
- and it should be easy to come by.
-
- -TimK
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- Tim King <> |-_ A poorly-documented feature is not
- timk@ycrdi.com | | | really there. A poorly-documented
- Young Chang R&D Inst. | > <> | limitation is far too present.
- |/ <>
- *** Original material copyright (C) 1992 J. Timothy King ***
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