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- From: daniel@mksol.dseg.ti.com (daniel lemon)
- Subject: PKLITE and viruses
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.170615.20247@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1993Jan27.013940.29180@nuscc.nus.sg> <1993Jan27.165746.7404@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:06:15 GMT
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- In article
- ><1993Jan27.165746.7404@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>lehner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Alexander Lehner) writes:
-
- >PKLITE (for example) compresses the .EXE file as any normal
- >compression does, but inserting a little de-compressing program at
- >the beginnit of the file, so that, if the program is executed, the
- >de-compression prg. will decompress the code-data and THEN execute
- >the normal program.
-
- But if you compress a program that has a virus in it, then will a
- virus scanner still find the virus in its compressed form? I would
- think that it wouldn't. This could be dangerous, couldn't it?
-