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to: KRZYSZTOF HARWAS
from: CURTIS CANNING
date: 1997-02-06 08:22:00
subject: Re: Warning

Hi Krzysztof
 KH> In this particular message you wrote :
 CC> I had : TBdriver
 CC>         TBscanx
 CC>         TBcheak
 CC>         TBmem
 CC>         TBfile
 CC>         TBscan Once All Drives.
 CC> All of them were activated, I do not take lately to viruses
 CC> being on my hard drive.
 KH> Suspicious, I'd say..... There had to be other things you
 KH> did not notice then or not remember now..... having the
 KH> configuration you say you had, it is almost impossible to
 KH> get infected. Why?
I think I have found the problem, I may have been using
a boot disk at the time, and it did not load up all
of the file ubove, so of course it did not pick anything
up.  Only my bootsector and partition table were protected
because I immunized the partition table, oh well, I know what
to do next time.
 KH> AND THE MOST IMPORTANT - LOAD ALL OF THE MODULES FROM THE CONFIG.SYS
 KH> FILE!  AND PUT THEM IN THE FIRST LINES OF THAT FILE. This is the
I did not know that it was possible, I have everything loaded
up in the Autoexec.bat, I'm still learning how to make up
batch files you see :)
 KH> If the thing have been done that way it is impossible to
 KH> get infected.  Almost. Never say never, right? :-)))))))
Yep :)
 KH> All of these are not true, if a virus have been activated
 KH> before the modules are loaded. But that is the other pair
 KH> of shoes, as we say in Poland. It is possible for a virus
 KH> to hide, but in such case the virus have to be loaded
 KH> BEFORE the modules of the TBAV are in memory. That's true.
Makes sense !!
 KH> Since I have been using the TBAV constantly (that means two years or
 KH> so) I  haven't get ANY virus yet. Before I got the TBAV installed,
 KH> I had had viruses few times a month.
Yeah, the only viruses I get these day are the ones
that slip through the defense because I did something
wrong to allow this :)
 KH> PS
 KH> Have to look through this message again, but in a case in
 KH> will not check again (kids are fighting and have to calm
 KH> them down),. In a case I missed something - I will write
 KH> alter.
Looks ok !!!
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                          MailiUg AustTalia WidE 97!
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