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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are McAffee Antivirals repacked using ZOO?
Message-ID: <1991May9.165210.20097@uwasa.fi>
Date: 9 May 91 16:52:10 GMT
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In article <1042@iiasa.UUCP> wnp@iiasa.AT (Wolf PAUL ) writes:
:
>Anyway, how could any option to an archiver really guard against
>tampering? All you would have to do is unpack them (w/ pkunzip),
>tamper with them, and repack them (w/ zip -av), and you would be none
>the wiser.

Have you tried it?  If not, please do, and then let us know what
happened.  Unless I'm throughly mistaken you just might be in for a
surprise. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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