Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PKARC 3.6 -- IS IT A TROJAN? Summary: it's real Message-ID: <1077@ima.ISC.COM> Date: 13 Jun 88 12:58:36 GMT References: Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) Organization: Not much Lines: 14 In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: >Recently a file called PK36.EXE with a size of 118K has appeared on a >BBS near me. Is this really a new version of PKARC/PKXARC? Is this a >Trojan or virus? It's real. I got my copy in the mail direct from PKWare, because I'm a registered user. If you're worried about trojan-ware, register the programs you care about and get your updates direct from the author. (You know, viruses could simultaneously be the best and worst things ever to happen to shareware authors.) -- John R. Levine, IECC, PO Box 349, Cambridge MA 02238-0349, +1 617 492 3869 { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something Rome fell, Babylon fell, Scarsdale will have its turn. -G. B. Shaw