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Re: PKZip 2.04c uploaded to wuarchive

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From: Geoffrey M Fritz
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 04:56
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In article <rdippold.726273186@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
>>In <rdippold.726230755@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>>>[Sorry, this should have been part of the crosspost, but I missed this group]
>
>>>I have uploaded PKZip 2.04c to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
>>>pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory.  It's pkz204c.exe and pkz204c.txt.
>
>>According to wuarchive this version is infected with the Maltese Amoeba
>>virus. It is no longer available.
>
>I'm not infected.  Scan99 and VirX can detect the Maltese Amoeba and
>they say I (and the files) are fine.

Same here.  I downloaded pkz204c.exe, I had vshieldv99 running, I unpacked
it, and then ran scan99, and I've been tinkering with PKZIP since.  No
detected problems as of now.

Just in case...

-gfritz
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