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- From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems
- Message-ID: <4860@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 01:29:22 PST
- References: <1993Jan4.184516.3492@digi.lonestar.org>
- Sender: news@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
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- Wow! Sounds like a really interesting boot sector virus.
- I think that either the technicians replacing "defective"
- HD controllers were taking you guys for a ride (hey, HD
- Ctrl's have a 50% markup)... OR someone has found a way
- to actually do harm by software. Maybe it could be done
- if you play around with sensitive configuration settings
- in CMOS RAM and in the motherboard chipset. Sounds kind
- of tough tho. Anyway, PKZIP 3.05 is definitely bogus,
- because it's too much (.05?) too soon (2.x was released
- not too long ago). It's too easy to place trojan horses
- into software. Way too easy. Why do people trust such
- obvious traps?
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- Aki.
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