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- From: slamberg@lut.fi (Samu Lamberg)
- Subject: Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems
- Sender: news@lut.fi (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <SLAMBERG.93Jan7150650@mato.cc.lut.fi>
- In-Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us's message of Tue, 05 Jan 93 01:29:22 PST
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:06:50 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.184516.3492@digi.lonestar.org> <4860@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
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- Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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- W[description deleted to save space]
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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).
-
- PKZip 2.x has not been released. The latest official version
- is 1.1. There has been a alfa/beta version 1.93 but not 2.x.
-
- It's too easy to place trojan horses
- into software. Way too easy. Why do people trust such
- obvious traps?
-
- Errare humanum est. I suggest sending this program to the authors of
- McAfee and F-prot.
-
- samu
-