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From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
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Subject: Re: PKLITE, what's the catch???
Keywords: PKLITE
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Date: 26 Jun 91 19:55:51 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.193811.24507@mercury.cair.du.edu> bstocker@diana.cair.du.edu (Bob Stocker) writes:
>>As far as I know, no catches.  Obviously, it doesn't work with some files.
>>
>There is one possible catch:  Most virus scanners won't pick up
>viruses that are embedded in a PKLITE, DIET or whatever file.

     Also, some programs (Qedit comes to mind) have configuration
programs that work by directly modifying the executable.  If the
executable is compressed, the configuration program probably won't
work, and you'll have to decompress, run the config program, and
recompress any time you want to change any of the defaults (screen
colors, etc.).

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