JK>Yes but that was not my point, it was that if the scanner had not found al
JK>the infected files after an infection, it would be safer to format or at l
JK>kill all files.
JK>
JK>RC> If you subscribe to this last point you raised, then I would suggest
JK>RC> you should format and re-install all your software every time you use
JK>RC> your computer - just in case your scanner missed a virus.
JK>
JK>Only if I get an infection, It's better to kill all your executable files,
JK>just in case, instead of taking a risk.
Is it very common for a virus scanner to find *some* occurrances of a
virus, but not all? I would think that if a scanner was able to locate a
virus in certain files and not in others, that would be a fairly good
indication that the other files were clean (of *that* virus, anyway).
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