Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:26755 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:2485 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Virus warning Summary: Not a virus at all, it's a bug in Arc Master Keywords: arcmaster,bugs Message-ID: <9948@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 29 Mar 89 20:19:18 GMT References: <373@nbires.nbi.com> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 31 This is the real story. PKWare is NOT involved. Arc Master has been updated to fix the bug. ARCM422.ARC will be available later today in Simtel20's pd1: directory. [From file ARCMWARN.TXT/ARCMWARN.ARC] 2/25/89 - ARCMASTER SOFTWARE DANGER ----------------------------------- The ArcMaster compression program shell/menu system has been a very popular download on our BBS. In the past week I have received numerous reports of messed up hard disks after running ArcMaster version 4.0 and 4.01. I don't know if there were bugs in those versions, or if some hacker has decided to target ArcMaster for trojans. I suggest all users of ArcMaster 4.0 and 4.01 stop using those versions and wait until you can get a clean, new version from a reliable source. My apologies to John Newlin, since he has written some great software, but the reports of trashed hard disks have been consistent enough to warrant some caution with the 4.x versions of ArcMaster. Bob Mahoney Exec-PC Multi-user BBS 414-964-5160 ---end--- -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz