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In article <01068008.n1jdvg@mfc.ycrdi.com>, timk@ycrdi.com (Tim King) writes:
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|> In article <3546@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> (comp.compression), nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
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|> > According to warning messages on wuarchive.wustl.edu the PKZIP 2.04c
|> > is a virus infected version. The virus detected is the "Maltese Amoeba"
|> 
|> My recommendation to all is that you get your PKZIP directly from PKWARE!

According to a discussion on the PKZIP forum of CompuServe
yesterday, this might be a false positive from Norton's AntiVirus
utility.

One person said that he saw this particular virus reported in
PKZ204C, using an older version of the Norton AV utility, but
that a more recent AV didn't report that virus.  Another person
reported that on another forum complaints were numerous that some
other particular piece of software (I've forgotten what) was
triggering the "Maltese Amoeba" from Norton AV, apparently
falsely.

I downloaded the PKZ204C.EXE (self extracting) file from
CompuServe, and examined it with f_prot (version 206a) and found
no problem.  It was from Library 16 of FIFTHGEN (or FGS?), as I
recall.

I worry more about electric spikes, disk crashes, software bugs
and stupid operator errors (I'm the operator) destroying my data
than I do viruses.  Since I back up religiously to cover for
these more common data destroyers, I figure I'll survive a virus
if I ever see one.

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