-=> Mocking Paul Walker to Kurt Wismer <=-
   
 KW> further, some debugging (of sorts) is done over the phone with end
 KW> users... why do you think all those unadvisable switches are there to
 KW> begin with?
 PW> /vid?
 
no... as i said, findvirus performs exact id's by default, everything it
says is "identified as" has been identified exactly, everything that
says "like virus . . ." has been done by more conventional means...
/vid is a switch that keeps it from switching over into just heuristic
mode (which it does by default if it detects 10 or more viruses to
increase the speed of scanning on dumb scanner comparisons which test
the speed of scanning of the zoo - what some people have wrongly called
cheating)
 KW> method it's using to identify the virus... if it had shown up as an
 KW> exact identification, no matter how rare or flakey the virus, it's
 KW> almost certainly not a false alarm (depending on the
 PW> True, I guess. I'm just saying that the output is far more likely to
 PW> be so  it looks good to the users (and so people can support it) than
 PW> because it's  debugging.
 
the average user isn't even going to know what it means... findvirus
almost always says "identified as" and the user will probably just
assume that's its default message whenever it finds a virus...
(technically it is it's default message because it does exact id by
default, but anyways)
 PW>> Besides, you can always have an option to turn debugging info on
 PW>> - most of  my programs do.
f-prot does... /guru /paranoid (probably just /guru will do) will place
an "(exact)" after each identification that has been performed
exactly...
 KW> that depends on what you're talking about with respect to debugging...
 PW> Writes debug files, outputs copies of all data blocks it sends to the
 PW> CD  interface, tells you exactly what it's doing; that sort of thing,
 PW> usually. 
from a programming perspective i've gotten used to debugging being that
extra crap one puts in the executable so you can run it through a
debugger (not necessary for asm)...
what you're talking about should definitely be left in the final product
though, for support purposes...
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