[Avcheck] Pre-announce: avcheck-0.9

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:29:56AM +0200, Piotr Klaban wrote:

> AVP recognizes UPX format. I am sure. Maybe the problem is with any new
> (not yet recognized) UPX format, or wrong WISE0018.BIN format,
> or avp's unpack.avc file is damaged.
> 
> But... from the log you included, it seems that file JPGWIZ.EXE is properly
> uncompressed - I do not know if JPGWIZ.EXE is a zip/exe archive and WISE0018.BIN
> is UPX packed, or JPGWIZ.EXE is UPX archive?

% munpack strangemessage
JPGWIZ.EXE (application/x-msdownload)
iview370g.exe (application/x-msdownload)

% file JPGWIZ.EXE
JPGWIZ.EXE: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 GUI executable

% file iview370g.exe
iview370g.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows

% upx -d JPGWIZ.EXE
                     Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
         Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
UPX 1.22         Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar        Jun
27th 2002

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
upx: JPGWIZ.EXE: NotPackedException: not packed by UPX

Unpacked 0 files.

% upx -d iview370g.exe
                     Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
         Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
UPX 1.22         Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar        Jun
27th 2002

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
upx: iview370g.exe: NotPackedException: not packed by UPX

Unpacked 0 files.

I sense an error in AVP :)

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