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From: pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (? pruss)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: LZEXE and SCAN (PC)
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Date: 28 May 90 17:09:30 GMT
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GLWARNER@SAMFORD.BITNET (The.Gar) writes:
>McAfee also has a solution for this problem.  SHEZ, which is a
>compressed file manager, will work in cooperation with SCAN from
>McAfee to scan compressed files for viruses.  If I understand its
>functioning correctly what actually occurs is that it searches the
>compressed file for .EXE, .COM, .OBJ, and .SYS files, then
>uncompresses them into a temporary file and scans that temp file.  I

LZEXE is not an archiver.  LZEXE is a program that compresses an .EXE
file into a runnable .EXE file and prepends a header that decompresses
the .EXE file when run.  You CAN however unpack LZEXE'd files via
UnLZexe.  My question is whether SHEZ will run UnLZexe.

pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca