pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w

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From: tom betz
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 09:46

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Quoth Nico E De Vries regarding PKZIP 2.04C UPLOADED TO W on 01-06-93:

NE>In <rdippold.726230755#cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippo
NE>
NE>>[Sorry, this should have been part of the crosspost, but I missed thi
NE>
NE>>I have uploaded PKZip 2.04c to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
NE>>pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory.  It's pkz204c.exe and pkz204c.txt.
NE>
NE>According to wuarchive this version is infected with the Maltese Amoeb
NE>virus. It is no longer available.

wuarchive is probably wrong.

PKWare says that this is the legitimate release, and it is not infected.

The reports of virus infection are coming from people using older versions 
of Norton Antivirus.  Later versions report (correctly) no virus.

While PKZip 2.04c may have a lot of problems (typical of Phil Katz, he 
released it with a bunch of power user options [DPMI, XMS, EMS all enabled 
unless you turn them off using obscure switches] defaulting to on, so that 
it is likely to crash Windows 3.1 and OS/2 DOS boxes) it is not infected 
by any virus.

Yet.


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From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
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Subject: pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w
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Date: 9 Jan 93 04:46:07 EST
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