Re: How dows LZEXE work ???

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 1990 11:40

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In article <1990Jul9.232906.8904@Solbourne.COM> imp@dancer.Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes:
>One last warning about LZEXE, it seems that most virus detection
>programs can't find a virus inside an LZEXEed program.

Well, as far as I know, there are two programs able to scan LZEXE-packed
files.  One is the SCAN program from McAfee, but the other is F-PROT 1.11
which I wrote.

I think no other virus scanning program has implemented LZEXE-scanning yet.

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Fridrik Skulason      University of Iceland  |       
Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK)  |  Reserved for future expansion
E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is    Fax: 354-1-28801  |

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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Re: How dows LZEXE work ???
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Date: 10 Jul 90 11:40:41 GMT
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