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echo: virus_info
to: TRECOR CLARKE
from: TODD COPELAND
date: 1997-11-16 10:25:00
subject: QUANTUM DRIVES

  ->Actually, unzipping a file CAN activate a virus... ONLY if you are
  ->runnign something that was released las year on the net as PK300, an
  ->update version of pkunzip which was in fact a virus program.
  ->Distributed by sysops to users in Melbourne as (not very funny) joke
  ->too.
I beleive you are refering to activating a virus by running an infected
PROGRAM. Not the act of uncompressing a file. While, in the broadest
sence and taken out of context, your statement could be looked upon as
being correct, it is very misleading.
 * OLX 2.1 * Todd Copeland  -  TEAM OS/2
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