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btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:

> Just a note: With all the talk going around that pkzip204c is NOT
> infected with a virus, I'm not suprised somebody has really infected a
> copy and uped it.

Why? Most people -still- think that it is infected. Others have at
least heard the rumours and will be cautious...

> You might be able to fool a few to many people.  I think that the "anti-
> virus" community should be carefull of what they are telling people.

Well, we, the anti-virus people -are- careful. Unlike PKWare, who only
posted the size and the date of the file (something easily forgeable),
in my report I posted VALIDATE checksums of the file that I verified
to be virus-free. OK, it is possible to forge them too, but it
requires much more effort... Nevertheless, if somebody still does not
feel secure enough, I can post a MD5 digest of the archive that I
verified to be virus-free.

Besides, the new PKZIP/PKUNZIP is so horribly buggy, that I wouldn't
advise anybody to use it - data loss may occur and much more likely to
bugs than to a virus... :-)

Regards,
Vesselin
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