Re: question about virus today & e-mail scanners

No Offense but yes Monkey (or one of the several variants) DID do it - we had it
happen.

And I wasn't saying don't scan and I agree that the clean option SHOULD be OK 
but
the question was COULD it trigger and yes it could...

No offense or anything !

Chuck

"L. S. Russell" wrote:

> WinProxy, which runs on NT, allows you to scan incoming messages for
> infection. For a nominal fee they will update the virus portion of the
> scanner automatically on a regular basis.
>
> But beyond that, I think it is bad advice to say you shouldn't run
> scan/clean or a similar option at least weekly. The monkey virus
> infected the MBR and used a stealth technique to hide from some virus
> scanners. To hide it would set itself in place of the normal method your
> pc used to access the MBR. But all it really did was propagate by
> overwriting the MBR of any unprotected disks.
>
> I would say that if you don't run scan/clean your odds of getting some
> kind of virus increase greatly. Compare that with the chances, if any,
> of activating a virus payload by running scan/clean. I have never heard
> of this happening, not saying it couldn't but Monkey didn't do it and I
> don't know of any other that does. But if they can write it to activate
> its payload when you run scan/clean they can write it to activate when
> you run scan/warn.
> Given the number of viruses out there even if there is one with those
> characteristics you would still be better off running scan/clean
> automatically nightly.
>
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