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Article #11616Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems
From: Samu Lamberg
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:06
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:06
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W[description deleted to save space] Wow! Sounds like a really interesting boot sector virus. I think that either the technicians replacing "defective" HD controllers were taking you guys for a ride (hey, HD Ctrl's have a 50% markup)... OR someone has found a way to actually do harm by software. Maybe it could be done if you play around with sensitive configuration settings in CMOS RAM and in the motherboard chipset. Sounds kind of tough tho. Anyway, PKZIP 3.05 is definitely bogus, because it's too much (.05?) too soon (2.x was released not too long ago). PKZip 2.x has not been released. The latest official version is 1.1. There has been a alfa/beta version 1.93 but not 2.x. It's too easy to place trojan horses into software. Way too easy. Why do people trust such obvious traps? Errare humanum est. I suggest sending this program to the authors of McAfee and F-prot. samu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!news.lut.fi!lut.fi!slamberg From: slamberg@lut.fi (Samu Lamberg) Subject: Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems Sender: news@lut.fi (Usenet News) Message-ID: <SLAMBERG.93Jan7150650@mato.cc.lut.fi> In-Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us's message of Tue, 05 Jan 93 01:29:22 PST Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:06:50 GMT References: <1993Jan4.184516.3492@digi.lonestar.org> <4860@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> Nntp-Posting-Host: cc.lut.fi Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 24