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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How dows LZEXE work ???
Message-ID: <1835@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 10 Jul 90 11:40:41 GMT
References: <9857@cs.utexas.edu> <4263@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1990Jul9.232906.8904@Solbourne.COM>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1990Jul9.232906.8904@Solbourne.COM> imp@dancer.Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes:
>One last warning about LZEXE, it seems that most virus detection
>programs can't find a virus inside an LZEXEed program.

Well, as far as I know, there are two programs able to scan LZEXE-packed
files.  One is the SCAN program from McAfee, but the other is F-PROT 1.11
which I wrote.

I think no other virus scanning program has implemented LZEXE-scanning yet.

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