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echo: alt-comp-anti-virus
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from: FROMTHERAFTERS
date: 2014-10-23 01:30:00
subject: Re: Another trojan from t

Virus Guy formulated the question :
> "David H. Lipman" wrote:
>  
>> There is no explicit nor implicit statement promoting the product
>> as an "anti virus".
>
> It's far beyond the time that you (and others) drop the distinction
> between virus, worm, dropper and trojan when discussing how those items
> are detected by commercial software. 

But that is why there *is* a distinction.

> While those items are different and have different characteristics and
> functionality, those differences are not relevent at all when the issue
> of their DETECTION and/or REMOVAL is being discussed.

But that is exactly why the distinction is important. The technology is 
different for the different types in both detection and removal.

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