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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!execnet![tom.betz@execnet.com]
- From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: *** warning *** pkzip 2.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.857.5540@execnet>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 04:46:06 EST
- Reply-To: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Executive Networks Information
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- Quoth Nico E De Vries regarding *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.0 on 01-06-93:
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- NE>According to warning messages on wuarchive.wustl.edu the PKZIP 2.04c
- NE>is a virus infected version. The virus detected is the "Maltese Amoeba
- NE>one.
-
- PKWare says that this is the legitimate release, and it is not infected.
-
- The reports are coming from people using older versions of Norton
- Antivirus. Later versions report (correctly) no virus.
-
- While PKZip 2.04c may have a lot of problems (typical of Phil Katz, he
- released it with a bunch of power user options [DPMI, XMS, EMS all enabled
- unless you turn them off using obscure switches] defaulting to on, so that
- it is likely to crash Windows 3.1 and OS/2 DOS boxes) it is not infected
- by any virus.
-
- Yet.
-
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