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- From: francis@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.133357.10027@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 13:33:57 -0400
- References: <1993Jan9.859.6057@execnet>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- > 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.
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- For what it's worth, I have been using the latest release of PKZip 2.04c
- for over a week with various files and have had no problems, and am quite
- impressed by the speed; of course, it may have something to do with the
- fact that I use a 486DX/33.
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- Francis
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- -- IMI URU LIVE & LET LIVE
- Francis Morley
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