Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PKWare ZIP -AV cracked Message-ID: <1991May16.074203.24156@uwasa.fi> Date: 16 May 91 07:42:03 GMT References: Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 18 In article w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: >I have received word from a reliable source that there is now a PKWare >ZIP authentication varification (-AV) cracker going around called >MAKEAV. It will generate registration numbers so that people can >create their own serialized ZIPs. : Nasty business, indeed. But it is also an example of the results of the pressures caused by introducing into a major product such features that are made available on very restricted basis. Sooner or later someone hacks. Not nice, at all, but seems to be an inevitable fact in the life of the global PC community. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun