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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
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Date: 15 Mar 90 19:05:33 GMT
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On 13 Mar 90 05:00:00 GMT chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) said:
>In article <2605@gmu90x.gmu.edu> jbaker@gmu90x.UUCP (John Baker) writes:
>>In article <2675@leah.Albany.Edu> wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
> writes:
>>How is a self-extracting file archive any more dangerous than the executable
>>inside the archive?  For some reason everyone was scared of PAK, even after
[Stuff deleted]

>
>I thought this was covered, but...  The reason a self-extracting file is more
>dangerous is that you have no control over it.  You either run it or you
>don't.  If I un-ZOO an archive, I can do whatever I want to with the final
>executable.  Assuming I trust the authors of the archiving program, there is
>no danger to my system unbtil I CHOOSE to run a program.  With a
>self-extracter,
>there is no telling what it might do.
>
     I think I see your point, but I don't agree.  Being too afraid to execute
 the actual program is exactly the same as being too afraid to un archieve it.
 It's not doing you any good.  Of course I may be a bit over confidant, as in
 the two years I've own an Amiga, I've never ever Ever EVER gotten a virus.

>>John Baker
>>jbaker@gmuvax.gmu.edu
>
> -Chris
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