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From: fvs@ncnoc.tucc.edu (Frank Schubert)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Re: Viruses and LZARC (sic)
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Date: 21 Apr 89 12:44:54 GMT
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In article <2530007@hpbsla.HP.COM> eboston@hpbsla.HP.COM (Ed_Boston) writes:
>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

 
Then I suppose you would not mind receiving a file that had ZIP as the last
level that was claimed to be a SE-P that in reality was a virus?