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From: jbaker@gmu90x.gmu.edu (jbaker)
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Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
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Date: 13 Mar 90 02:07:50 GMT
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In article <2675@leah.Albany.Edu> wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes:
>It's a dangerous world out there, and there is no point doing unnecessarily
>dangerous things.  Self-extracting archives are a safe idea only in utopia
>or within a very secure office environment.  They are never a good idea.
> -- Bill

How is a self-extracting file archive any more dangerous than the executable
inside the archive?  For some reason everyone was scared of PAK, even after
an un-archiver was written for those who were afraid of PAK files.  But
trojan horses can just as easily be attached to the program you un-zoo or
un-lharc...

John Baker
jbaker@gmuvax.gmu.edu