>  RF> If you'd installed TBAV as per the author's recommendation you
 >  RF> wouldn't have had the Major problem, btw ... I just tried to infect
 >  RF> a HD with Major.1644 and TBAV's TSRs barfed all over the place.
 > First of all it wasn't a real problem only 6 files got
 > infected, and I jumped on it it pretty quickly, I'm always
 > scanning with F-Prot and TBAV.
It pays to stay on top of these things ... if you hadn't caught the
virus early you might have ended up with 6000 infected files.
 > I also did install TBAV with the author's recommendations,
 > but that bring me to another point does a boot disk disable
 > TBAV's TSRs because there is a chance that I might have
 > been using a boot disk at the time, I'm always flicking
 > back and forth between boot Disks and normal boot, because
 > the games are fussy with memory, and I have boot Disks
 > for everything.
TBAV's TSRs would not be loaded if you booted from a floppy.
I prefer to load TBAV's resident programs as the first device drivers in
config.sys, btw ... that way they're up and running before anything else
loads.
 > Also is it true that big companies make up viruses so they
 > can sell there products ?  eg ( like a Virus company )..
The antivirus industry has collectively been defending itself against
virus-writing rumors for years (I'm not really Dark Avenger, and neither
is Vesselin Bontchev!) but no ETHICAL AVer (and MOST of us ARE ethical)
writes or distributes viruses and no-one has ever produced evidence to
prove that any ETHICAL AVer has ever done so.  If the industry had its
own Ten Commandments, #1 would be "Thou shalt not spread viruses!"
However, not all AVers hold true to the same standard of ethics, and it
seems to me that one particular company goes out of its way to bring the
whole industry into disrepute and to "prove" that AVers spread viruses.
A couple of years ago a major war of words erupted after this antivirus
company was exposed as having the world's biggest VX (Virus Exchange)
sysops and virus spreaders on its payroll.  Just about every reputable
AVer in the world denounced this behavior as unethical at the time, but
the old saying about leopards and spots must be true ... Virus Bulletin
(the antivirus industry "trade journal") recently revealed that this
very same antivirus company's sales reps still hand out live viruses to
anyone who asks for them.
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