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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: PKZIP V2.04C (PC)
- Message-ID: <0008.9301271940.AA16908@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 15 Jan 93 06:11:58 GMT
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- btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
-
- > Just a note: With all the talk going around that pkzip204c is NOT
- > infected with a virus, I'm not suprised somebody has really infected a
- > copy and uped it.
-
- Why? Most people -still- think that it is infected. Others have at
- least heard the rumours and will be cautious...
-
- > You might be able to fool a few to many people. I think that the "anti-
- > virus" community should be carefull of what they are telling people.
-
- Well, we, the anti-virus people -are- careful. Unlike PKWare, who only
- posted the size and the date of the file (something easily forgeable),
- in my report I posted VALIDATE checksums of the file that I verified
- to be virus-free. OK, it is possible to forge them too, but it
- requires much more effort... Nevertheless, if somebody still does not
- feel secure enough, I can post a MD5 digest of the archive that I
- verified to be virus-free.
-
- Besides, the new PKZIP/PKUNZIP is so horribly buggy, that I wouldn't
- advise anybody to use it - data loss may occur and much more likely to
- bugs than to a virus... :-)
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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