PKLITE and viruses

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From: daniel lemon
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:06

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><1993Jan27.165746.7404@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>lehner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Alexander Lehner) writes:

>PKLITE (for example) compresses the .EXE file as any normal
>compression does, but inserting a little de-compressing program at
>the beginnit of the file, so that, if the program is executed, the
>de-compression prg. will decompress the code-data and THEN execute
>the normal program.

But if you compress a program that has a virus in it, then will a
virus scanner still find the virus in its compressed form?  I would
think that it wouldn't.  This could be dangerous, couldn't it?

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