-=> Quoting Rick Collins to The Visionary <=-
 tv> A virus can and does spread through your system when it's active
 tv> in memory. It will spread when you traverse directories (which
 tv> is why it is bad to scan in this manner), and infect files along
 tv> the way. Each access to an executable file is like putting food
 tv> in front of it, and it uses that as it's new 'host'.
 RC> DOS is a single-process system.  When it's executing the program that
 RC> reads directories, it doesn't execute anything else.
        DOS is a single process operating system (in most cases), but if I am
running a scanner that loads signatures into memory (rather than locking out
memory access during the scan) *IT* will traverse the directory structure, 
nd
if a virus happens to be in memory while it's opening and closing all those
file handles, you're more prone to infection than if it was only doing one
directory, or just the MBR/Partition table.
        I didn't say that just running DOS would have this affect, I said
SCANNING in this manner would have this effect.
-The Visionary
visionary@brazerko.com
... Difference between a virus & windows? Viruses never fail.
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