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- From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
- Subject: Re: PKZip2.04c - Possible serious problem
- Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:25:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1ILAt.73s@NCoast.ORG>
- References: <1993Jan27.000103.22384@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan27.000103.22384@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dgj2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (David Glen Jacobowitz) writes:
- >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.
-
- This is one of a host of known problems with PKZIP 2.04c. Unlike most
- of them, this one isn't PKZIP's fault. You have an old copy of NAV.
- Get the current version and it will no longer (falsely) report a virus
- in PKZIP.
-
- For everyone: There is a complete list of known PKZIP bugs posted in
- comp.compression every few days.
- --
- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- "Compared to my life, the last man on a chain gang is thoroughly
- enjoying himself." __Holiday__ by Philip Barry
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