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Re: PKZip 2.04c uploaded to wuarchive

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From: jeffrey imes
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 23:41
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>>According to wuarchive this version is infected with the Maltese Amoeba
>>virus. It is no longer available.
>
>Norton Anti-Virus is getting a false detection of the Maltese Amoeba.
>It will be available periodically.

Well, contrary to other people's reports, I was very definately infected with
the Maltese Amoeba virus.  Fortunately, I was able to get a friend to load a
new system into my comp, plus the fact that I deleted the infected files out
of my system before any more damage could be done.

Well here's the damage.  My DOS files are gone.  Totally scrambled.  Also, as
a point of interest, the file I received was pkz204.exe and when uncompressed
the files passed the verification checks.  Which leads me to believe that the
virus I had was shipped in the original.  Yep, you know what that means.

Well, enough for here.  Write back on e-mail to me if you have any question as
to whether there is a virus on this file.
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Jeffrey Imes             	  "It's really tragic how a family can get torn
CIS Undergraduate Student	   apart by something as simple as wild dogs."
imes@cis.ohio-state.edu		   		-- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
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