Re: question about virus today & e-mail scanners

I didn't say it could happen, I said that the chances of it happening
are smaller than the chances of damage occurring if you ignore
protection methods.

Chuck Lewis wrote:
> 
> 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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