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- From: HAYES@urvax.urich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: new PKZIP problems? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0018.9301271940.AA16908@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 18 Jan 93 12:41:20 GMT
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- Hello.
-
- Just received a lot of mail on the BBS where I moderate the virus
- awareness sub-board, all related to the new PKware PKZIP/PKUNZIP, now
- distributed as PKZ204C.EXE (self-extracting archive) and the update
- files for Symantec Norton's ANTIVIRUS (two files).
-
- Seems that the new PKUNZIP finds a virus, the _maltese amoeba_ and
- then stops de-archiving. I myself downloaded the two files, unzipped
- them with no problems, and verified them with both McAfee's Scan
- (v.99) and Frisk's F-prot. No virus found by both AV programs.
-
- Two questions:
- a) Does anyone know which type of AV PKware now adds to their program?
- b) Are there other reports of similar behavior from PKzip/PKunzip?
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- Thanks in advance, Claude.
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- Claude Bersano-Hayes HAYES @ URVAX (Vanilla BITNET)
- University of Richmond hayes@urvax.urich.edu (Bitnet or Internet)
- Richmond, VA 23173
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