-=> Quoting Kurt Wismer to David Desrosiers <=-
 KW> @MSGID: 1:250/503.0 32c3ecfa
 KW> an image of the virus is in a dos buffer, thats why it's being
 KW> detected... the instruction pointer never points into a dos buffer so
 KW> the instructions that may be contained within never get processed...
        Yes, true, but if I power off that system, and scan it with a clean
disk, it will detect the virus on the MBR.
 KW> try this... on a known clean system after boot up, place an infected
 KW> disk in the drive and execute a dir a:... then scan and you should see
 KW> a warning.... then take the disk out, boot from a known clean diskette
 KW> and scan again, you should not see a warning... if you do either the
 KW> system wasn't clean to begin with or the known clean floppy wasn't
 KW> actually clean...
        See above.
 KW> there is something very basic to computers... they execute code and
 KW> they manipulate data in responce to the execution of the code...
 KW> reading something in and of itself only loads data into memory, it does
 KW> not execute anything except the code that did the loading (and that
 KW> code has to already be in memory)...
        So you're saying that a computer can't execute commands without
loading it into memory first?
-The Visionary
visionary@brazerko.com
... Install failed: Attempting to transfer virus to c:
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