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Started by Tim King
Wed, 06 Jan 1993 22:56
Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
Author: Tim King
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 22:56
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 22:56
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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"
> one.
[ . . . ]
> Clearly some smart cracker have used their chance. It might take ages before
> everyone has a reliable PKZIP 2.0x....
My recommendation to all is that you get your PKZIP directly from PKWARE!
For unregistered copies, one can call the PKWARE BBS. (I assume that
PKWARE keeps tight strings on its own BBS.) All of the information
necessary to do any of this is included in the PKZIP shareware distribution,
and it should be easy to come by.
-TimK
--
Tim King <> |-_ A poorly-documented feature is not
timk@ycrdi.com | | | really there. A poorly-documented
Young Chang R&D Inst. | > <> | limitation is far too present.
|/ <>
*** Original material copyright (C) 1992 J. Timothy King ***
Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
Author: Paul Jackson
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 05:07
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 05:07
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In article <01068008.n1jdvg@mfc.ycrdi.com>, timk@ycrdi.com (Tim King) writes: |> |> In article <3546@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> (comp.compression), nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes: |> > |> > 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. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Software Production Engineer Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
Re: *** WARNING *** PKZIP 2.04c is infected by a virus.
Author: Dwayne Barstad
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:27
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:27
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In article <1igdr6INNmth@fido.asd.sgi.com> pj@sgi.com writes: >In article <01068008.n1jdvg@mfc.ycrdi.com>, timk@ycrdi.com (Tim King) writes: >|> >|> In article <3546@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> (comp.compression), nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes: >|> > >|> > 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. > I just downloaded the pkz204c.exe directly from PKWare Inc. in Wisconsin. Thier Billboard says that the detection of said virus is du to a bad virus string data file, and has a replacement for the older (defective) file on its BBS. The Pkz204c.exe extracts with av... and works great. Here goes the multi- volume backup... ZIP LIKE HELL!!!!!!! Dwayne -- ============================================================================= == Dwayne Barstad barstad@plains.nodak.edu (Internet) == == Computer Engineering (Student) barstad@plains (BITNET) == == North Dakota State University Phone: (701) 237-5131 == =============================================================================
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