Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!gilla Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: LZEXE - Is it too good to be true? Date: Wednesday, 11 Apr 1990 18:26:31 EDT From: "Arnold G. Gill" Message-ID: <90101.182631GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> References: <4953@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <10262@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <9770@yunexus.UUCP> <6286@star.cs.vu.nl> Is the use of LZEXE a partial safeguard against viruses? With the encoded file, is a virus able to simply infect it as it would a normal .EXE file? Or does that not make much of a difference? I was just thinking that the decoding step would corrupt the virus and make it unworkable - essentially kill it. Or is it not just that simple? ------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Arnold Gill | | | Queen's University at Kingston | If I hadn't wanted it heard, | | BITNET : gilla@qucdn | I wouldn't have said it. | | X-400 : Arnold.Gill@QueensU.CA | | | INTERNET : gilla@qucdn.queensu.ca | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-