Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!philapd!apdnm!baukje.idca.tds.philips.nl!groot From: groot@idca.tds.philips.nl (Henk de Groot) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: LHA212JP.EXE .lzh archiver at garbo.uwasa.fi Keywords: japan lha Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 09:39:20 GMT References: <1991Apr21.074001.18243@uwasa.fi> <1991Apr22.032912.23254@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr23.113026.2657@unlinfo.unl.edu> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Reply-To: groot@idca.tds.philips.nl (Henk de Groot) Lines: 20 Disclaimer: This opinion is mine alone About SFX files: What is the problem with selfextracting files <-> virusses? You can scan the SFX file with a good virus scanner (like F-PROT) and than run it! The resulting files may be contaminated but you have the same result with running an unpacker on an arbitrary archive. If you fear for unknow viruses (i.e. not recognized by the scanner) who proves that your unpacker is not contaminated or that the software inside the archive is not. The only way to be save is not to get files from an anywhere. Just my 5 cents (in Holland there are no single cents anymore, so 5 cents is as close to 2 cents as one can get) worth Henk. -- / / Henk de Groot | Department: PG 9000i - System Services /---/ __ __ / V2/A12-A13 | Internet : groot@idca.tds.philips.nl / / (-_ / / /( Tel: +31 55 432099 | == PHILIPS INFORMATION SYSTEMS == Disclaimer: I only speak for myself, not for my employer!