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[jdow]

From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
Sent: Sunday, 2010/April/18 13:39


> On Sunday 18 April 2010, Craig White wrote:
>>On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>>> One other weird thing i forgot to mention.
>>>
>>> I install xp via wine 2 months ago.
>>> Have not touched it since.
>>>
>>> Started scanning just to see a week ago.
>>>
>>> The files that were renamed by the virus were done two days ago,
>>> according to time stamps.
>>>
>>> So this thing sat dormant until I started looking for them and that
>>> is
>>> when it attacked.
>>>
>>> Now that's wild
>>
>>----
>>from your description it sounds as if the other AV program identified
>>and renamed the files - whether it is a real positive or a false
>>positive is probably debatable.
>>
>>Sometimes I think the Windows AV products like to 'find' things to
>>demonstrate that they are working and have some value.
>>
>>Craig
>>
> For a change we are in agreement Craig.

For the larger Windows AV vendors that does not seem to be the case.
Of course, at least one of them behaves, itself, more like a virus
than an anti-virus with regards to system stability. (And one printer
manufacturer has addon software for windows that seems to fall under
that rubric.)

{^_-}