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Vesselin Bontchev writes:

 > What is interesting is that somebody used an out-of-
 > date version of Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus to scan the new archiver.
 > It seems that this version causes a false positive - the program is
 > flagged as infected by Maltese Amoeba.

and

 > all executables in the package are self- compressed with PKLite
 > 1.20. This caused the heuristic scanner of F-Prot to report that those
 > files are suspicious, because they contain a program that modifies

It is obviouse that anyone that uses any old version of any Anti-Virus
product is subject to false alarms, and even more obviouse that if you
use a "Generic" scanner that looks for special kinds of codes whithin
a file (that could imply that a virus is lurking there), you will jump
from your seat many times for nothing !

So, if you are using such products, great, but don't spread panic for
nothing.  Ican easilly supply you with a handfull of "viruses" that do
not exist, to write about.

 > I obtained a copy of the new version of PKZIP,
 > examined it manually with a debugger, and scanned it with about a dozen
 > scanners. The result is that NONE OF THE EXECUTABLE FILES IS INFECTED.

 > So, please done's pay attention to the rumors, if they reach you.

We thank you for your effort.

* Amir Netiv. V-CARE Anti-Virus, Head team.*

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