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- From: msaxer@stein.u.washington.edu (Frisbee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT!
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 09:58:52 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <1ijesfINNfdk@ub.d.umn.edu> jgregory@ub.d.umn.edu (jennifer gregory) writes:
- >
- >Just a quick note, as I've already seen posts referring to pkzip 2.04c --
- >I nabbed a copy off of wuarchive.wustl.edu -- it has, in two files, once
- >extracted, strains of the MALTESE AMOEBA virus, which cannot be repaired.
- >Luckily, I scanned before execing anything, and I thought I would warn you
- >all.
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- I just wanted to correct this information since it is wrong. The fault is
- with the scanner she used (NAV 2.0, I'd guess) not the files. Refer to
- comp.compression for further info.
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- Back to Dune 2 now.
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