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Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:53:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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To:	"Nimrod A. Abing" <n_abing AT ns DOT roxas-online DOT net DOT ph>
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Subject:	Re: That crash message from the core dumper.
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Nimrod A. Abing wrote:

> At 11:20 AM 04/06/2001 +0200, you wrote:

> >Is there even a remote chance that you do have a virus in your machine?
> >Have you done a full scan from a clean boot, recently? Are your virus
> >signature files up-to-date?
> 
> Sounds like one of those AV banner ads ;-) Quick answers to wit, no, yes,
> and yes. InoculateIT, IIRC, _was_ the last binary exec that I downloaded
> from the Internet. 

I didn't say that this must be a virus that infected your machine only
recently. The possible problem I was thinking of is that you might have a
very clever stealth virus on your system (boot sector, or infected
command.com), for quite some time, already. Installing a Win9x virus
scanner on an infected system would then not be guaranteed to find that
virus. This is an almost unavoidable problem for all Scanners running in
Win9x. If you can't run the scanner off a write-protected floppy after
booting into DOS from a write-protected medium, you can never be 100% sure
you'll find a clever stealth virus in memory or on disk.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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