CC-> RC> OK, lets.  But let's also keep one foot in reality and say what we
  -> RC> mean.  Are you talking about a virus or about a Trojan?  They are
  -> RC> _not_ the same things.
CC->Well my understanding of a virus and a trojan is that,
  ->a trojan sits on your computer and waits for a certain
  ->time and date and then it activates it self and infects
  ->your files, and a virus is when it keeps on infecting
  ->files when you activate a program or reboot the computer.
CC->"please correct me if I'm wrong"
A trojan is a program that appears to do one thing but actually does
another. A program called INSTALL.BAT that formats your C drive would be
a trojan. Tojans are non replicating. It does not have to "sit on your
computer". This would tend to be a virus.
A virus infects other programs (intentionally) and those infected
programs, in turn, do the same.
CC-> 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.
If you do a clean boot then a virus will only become active if you
execute it.
CC->Then people would have to resort to programming bombs, instead
  ->of viruses.
Making anything that is something proof is almost, if not, impossible.
(Hey, I like that last statement! :])
 * OLX 2.1 * Todd Copeland  -  TEAM OS/2
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