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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!gatech!rpi!sarah!gemini!LS8139
- From: ls8139@gemini ( )
- Subject: Re: PKZip2.04c - Possible serious problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.015000.9795@sarah.albany.edu>
- Sender: news@sarah.albany.edu (News Administrator)
- Reply-To: ls8139@gemini
- Organization: University of Albany, SUNY
- References: <1993Jan27.000103.22384@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 01:50:00 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1993Jan27.000103.22384@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, dgj2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (David Glen Jacobowitz) writes:
- >
- > 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
- >
- I had the same virus alert. Don't worry it is a false alarm as many
- people told me. In group comp.compression there was many posting on
- the subject, and I assume that comp.virus got just as many (though I
- didn't bother to check). I was told that I could update my NDW virus
- data (or something like that) to prevent the false alarm.
-
- Elaboration anyone???
-
-