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- From: dgj2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (David Glen Jacobowitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: PKZip2.04c - Possible serious problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.000103.22384@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:01:03 GMT
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
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- Originator: dgj2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU
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-
- I am posting this article to comp.os.ms-windows.misc because I
- got the new version of pkzip from ftp.cica.indiana.edu and I know that
- nany people who read this group access that site a lot.
- Here is the story. I got pkz204c.exe from cic in the
- pub/pc/starter directory when I realized that my other version would
- not unzip some newer archives. Since then ( about three days ago ) I
- have been using it without much problem. Yesterday I installed Norton
- Desktop for Windows. It comes with an Norton Anti-Virus. Today when I
- tried to use pkunzip it told me that the program has a strain of the
- "Maltese Amoeba" virus. I ran the virus scan and it said pkunzip and
- pkzipfix were both infected.
- I went back to cica to download the files again, and when
- pkz204c was unzipped again it still gave the same virus warnings.
-
- Now here's the thing. I don't think there is a virus in these
- files. Cica is a good, careful site ( it seems ) and I'm sure that
- they check for these things. I'm guessing that there is just some
- sequence of commands in pkzunzip and pkzipfix that looks to Norton
- like a virus.
- Somebody else please check this out and post here and or
- e-mail me. BTW, I have Central Point Antivirus on my machine and it
- doesn't find anythnig wrong with the files. It is older than the
- program that came with NDW, though.
-
- sincerely,
-
- david g jacobowitz
- dgj2y@virginia.edu
-