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From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: What's so bad about self-extracting archives?
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Date: 25 Apr 91 13:49:10 GMT
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I'm sorry if this question seems a bit naive, but why are people so
concerned about the risk of virus-infected self-extracting archive
files?

Can't you just first run the archive file through your favourite virus
checker, and if it passes the test extract it, and then test the
individual files that were inside it? Or have I missed something?

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