Virus Checking

From: Tim Hotze <tim_at_thereviewguide.com>
Date: Tue Dec 29 03:10:03 1998

> Many stealth viruses can hide from virus checkers as well as not showing the
> memory they occcupy as used. When you ran the scanner did you boot from a
> _known_clean_ write protected floppy, this is essential for reliable scanning.
> Also, you do not say what virus scanning software you are using bear in mind
> that MS anti virus doesn't detect many common viruses.

Yes, I booted from a write protected floppy, but before that I did a
virus scan with a normal boot.

And of course I don't use MS Anit Virus. IIRC, it hasn't been
updated since 1992 when Windows 3.1 shipped!
 
> Regards
> Pete
Tim
Received on Tue Dec 29 1998 - 03:10:03 GMT