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- From: barstad@plains.NoDak.edu (Dwayne Barstad)
- Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:27:34 GMT
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- In article <1igdr6INNmth@fido.asd.sgi.com> pj@sgi.com writes:
- >In article <01068008.n1jdvg@mfc.ycrdi.com>, timk@ycrdi.com (Tim King) writes:
- >|>
- >|> 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"
- >|>
- >|> My recommendation to all is that you get your PKZIP directly from PKWARE!
- >
- >According to a discussion on the PKZIP forum of CompuServe
- >yesterday, this might be a false positive from Norton's AntiVirus
- >utility.
- >
- >One person said that he saw this particular virus reported in
- >PKZ204C, using an older version of the Norton AV utility, but
- >that a more recent AV didn't report that virus. Another person
- >reported that on another forum complaints were numerous that some
- >other particular piece of software (I've forgotten what) was
- >triggering the "Maltese Amoeba" from Norton AV, apparently
- >falsely.
- >
- >I downloaded the PKZ204C.EXE (self extracting) file from
- >CompuServe, and examined it with f_prot (version 206a) and found
- >no problem. It was from Library 16 of FIFTHGEN (or FGS?), as I
- >recall.
- >
- >I worry more about electric spikes, disk crashes, software bugs
- >and stupid operator errors (I'm the operator) destroying my data
- >than I do viruses. Since I back up religiously to cover for
- >these more common data destroyers, I figure I'll survive a virus
- >if I ever see one.
- >
-
- I just downloaded the pkz204c.exe directly from PKWare Inc. in Wisconsin. Thier
- Billboard says that the detection of said virus is du to a bad virus string data
- file, and has a replacement for the older (defective) file on its BBS.
-
- The Pkz204c.exe extracts with av... and works great. Here goes the multi-
- volume backup...
-
- ZIP LIKE HELL!!!!!!!
-
- Dwayne
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