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kw> your real problem here was using a scanner on the hd without
kw> booting clean first... all scanners have the possibility of
kw> being susceptable to the same kind of attack that got your
kw> tbav.exe file.... if you suspect an active infection you should
kw> always remove the virus from memory by doing a clean boot before
kw> you try scanning, otherwise you may spread the virus to every
kw> executable on your drive... 
cc> Lets make up a theoretical question, What if the virus was so
cc> advanced, lets say a trojan with stealth capabilities, and it
cc> got past my virus scanner and it went straight to TBAV and
cc> infected it. 
OK, lets.  But let's also keep one foot in reality and say what we
mean.  Are you talking about a virus or about a Trojan?  They are
_not_ the same things.
CC> Even if I did a clean boot it will still be infected, lets say
CC> it was such a good trojan that it infected my emergency TBAV
CC> backup on disk as well, because I didn't realized that there was
CC> a virus on it everything is infected.
CC> All I'm saying is that these virus scanner companies should make
CC> the files so they can't get infected and cover all possibilities
Why not ask for somethig just as unreasonable: "Software companies
should make the files so they can't get infected and cover all
possibilities".  Then, you wouldn't need to worry about "infected
files" at all.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 17 Jan 17:22 
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