Hi Wayne Chirnside,
05 Oct 97 tarihinde, hatta yanilmiyorsam saat 13:44, sen Wayne Chirnside
dedin ki:
(sorry I dont have an english header yet)
BD>> As far as the Virus issue is concerned, the ANTICMOS A Virus is
BD>> a Boot-Sector Virus. This kind of virus does not propagate by
BD>> downloads -- it requires an infected boot disk.
WC> I'd just like to say that I haven't swapped diskettes in years
WC> and have scanned all with the latest virus scanner's yet I
WC> aquired anticmos a: on a i-net download. I know this doesn't
WC> seem reasonable but as I recall it was a zipped .avi file that
WC> showed crc errors on unzipping, shortly thereafter I ran a virus
WC> check and found anticmos a:. Now I continue to use a small number
it seems impossible that after unzipping something you get a virus.. but it
is not impossible to get a boot sector virus from a downloaded executable
file, it may be a virus dropper and it may trick the antivirus software..
--- GoldED/386 2.50.A0715 UNREG
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* Origin: void BBS where nothing but (2:431/327)
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