Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!lgc.com!mips.mitek.com!hp835.mitek.com!clb From: clb@hp835.mitek.com (Chris Boyd) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: NetHack 3.0j: file sizes wrong, virus? Keywords: nethack,virus Message-ID: <1991May22.170304.10554@mips.mitek.com> Date: 22 May 91 17:03:04 GMT References: <1991May22.153246.6351@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@mips.mitek.com (USENET Administrator) Organization: OpenConnect Systems, Carrollton, Texas Lines: 23 In article <1991May22.153246.6351@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes: > Well, I got all the parts of the NetHack 3.0j post, and un-zoo'd it >on my PC. However, both of the .zoo files are 37 bytes bigger than the >sizes given in the header of the first part, and "sum" reports different >figures as well. The individual file sizes are correct, though. I do not >have brik do I did not test it that way. Any comments/suggestions? Could >there be a virus? >John Gordon >Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu #include > gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil #include I too noted the difference. Brik checksums were off as well. I checked the zoo'ed binaries with the -t option and everything seemed O.K. I then extracted the files and scanned them with F-PROT's F-SCAN and McAfee's SCAN (no, not 78 :-). Both programs reported a clean machine. The game seems to run fine. Anyone asked the authors yet? -- (*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*) (* Chris Boyd OpenConnect Systems, Inc. clb@mips.mitek.com *) (* All rights regarding my opinions reserved. *) (* I have no right to speak for others, only for myself. *)