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Subject: Re: Fafis and the virus

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 03:00:18 05/24/05

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On May 24, 2005 at 05:04:52, Alex Schmidt wrote:

>Hello,
>
>>Either compressed or encrypted, i.e. it is itself not compressible (this is easy
>>to test).  Any file that is obfuscated in this way is ... suspicious ...
>
>That means the virus inside Fafis was compressed or encrypted?
>
>Doesn't that mean it is very unlikely that the virus was placed there by
>accident?
>
>Is that the reason the virus in the Fafis.exe was not detected by virus
>software?
>
>:-(
>
>Best,
>Alex

It can be that the encryption/compression software itself contained
the virus and spread it to each file it is used for.

Guenther



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