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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!execnet![tom.betz@execnet.com]
- From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.859.6057@execnet>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 04:46:07 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 PKZIP 2.04C UPLOADED TO W on 01-06-93:
-
- NE>In <rdippold.726230755#cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippo
- NE>
- NE>>[Sorry, this should have been part of the crosspost, but I missed thi
- NE>
- NE>>I have uploaded PKZip 2.04c to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
- NE>>pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory. It's pkz204c.exe and pkz204c.txt.
- NE>
- NE>According to wuarchive this version is infected with the Maltese Amoeb
- NE>virus. It is no longer available.
-
- wuarchive is probably wrong.
-
- PKWare says that this is the legitimate release, and it is not infected.
-
- The reports of virus infection 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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