new PKZIP problems? (PC)

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1 total messages Started by HAYES Mon, 18 Jan 1993 12:41

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Author: HAYES
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 12:41

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Hello.

Just received a lot of mail on the BBS where I moderate the virus
awareness sub-board, all related to the new PKware PKZIP/PKUNZIP, now
distributed as PKZ204C.EXE (self-extracting archive) and the update
files for Symantec Norton's ANTIVIRUS (two files).
  
Seems that the new PKUNZIP finds a virus, the _maltese amoeba_ and
then stops de-archiving.  I myself downloaded the two files, unzipped
them with no problems, and verified them with both McAfee's Scan
(v.99) and Frisk's F-prot.  No virus found by both AV programs.

Two questions:
a) Does anyone know which type of AV PKware now adds to their program?
b) Are there other reports of similar behavior from PKzip/PKunzip?

Thanks in advance,  Claude.

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Claude Bersano-Hayes     HAYES @ URVAX                 (Vanilla BITNET)
University of Richmond   hayes@urvax.urich.edu     (Bitnet or Internet)
Richmond, VA  23173

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