"Stephan T. Lavavej" wrote:
> (C), Some people were (and some still are) confused: packing an executable
> does _not_ have to be undone by the end user; in fact, the end user need
> never ever EVER know about it. There _are_no_drawbacks_. No compute cost,
> no memory cost, only a space savings. Which isn't bad. Few things in life
> come with no drawbacks. Take advantage of the ones that do.
The big disadvantage of this for me is that it makes the EXE totally
opaque
to virus scanners. So unless the virus scanner knows how to unpack the
EXE
(which they do for most common EXE packers) any viruses sent in this
form
will not be detected. The last big virus attack got by our virus
checker
because it was an old virus encased in a new EXE pack program.
Regards,
Herb Savage
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