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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utoday!wagner
  3. From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
  4. Subject: Re: virus reported in PC PKzip 2.04c
  5. Organization: Open Systems Today
  6. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:51:40 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.135140.18691@utoday.com>
  8. References: <01GTPUIHVXCYPF8GEW@LSUVAX.SNCC.LSU.EDU>
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  11. COEPOW@SN01.SNCC.LSU.EDU (Jim Power) writes:
  12.  
  13. >... his Norton AntiVirus 2.0 reports that the files
  14. >PKUNZIP.EXE and PKZIPFIX.EXE both contain the virus "Maltese amoeba".
  15.  
  16. That's likely to be a "false positive," due to an incompatibility
  17. between that version of Norton and the new version of PKZIP. It's
  18. being discussed on comp.compression even as we speak.
  19.  
  20. Thanks!
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