Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hp-ses!hpdml93!hpbsla!eboston From: eboston@hpbsla.HP.COM (Ed_Boston) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Re: Viruses and LZARC (sic) Message-ID: <2530007@hpbsla.HP.COM> Date: 19 Apr 89 16:34:15 GMT References: <6557@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Boise R & D Lab Lines: 9 Either you missed the point I was trying to get across, or I was very unclear about what I was saying. I am not against Self-Extracting programs. In fact, I use PKZIP for all my personal files. It is the SELF-RUNNING programs in the Self-Extracting programs that I object to. When I run a .EXE program that is compressed, I don't want a program inside of the archive to start running. Ed Boston