Eric wrote: > I concur about the commercial virus scanners.
But these are also not perfect. ;-) Two weeks ago Trend Micro Worry-Free (TMWF) installed to a customer's PC detected a simple virus (installed as a Windows service to send junk mails via Russian SMTP servers), but couldn't remove the file, because it was still in use. I manually removed the virus from the Windows registry and from the HDD after a reboot. Two days later TMWF detected another virus on this PC. This time it was part of a trojan downloader, but I couldn't find the files TWMF was complaining about. After an hour w/o any progress, I finally remembered the tools Rootkit Revealer and RootAlyzer. Both found some hidden files and registry entries. AFAIR RootAlyzer was able to remove the registry entries, but none of the files. So I also had to use <http://swandog46.geekstogo.com/avenger2/avenger2.html> to remove those. It was a nice challenge, but I will always hate malware authors. TMWF was of no help. Really bad for a commercial software intended for business use. But I have similar experiences with Sophos Anti-Virus and Avira's Antivir. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
