On 22 Oct 2009 at 21:30, Carl Houseman  wrote:

> All this turmoil over scheduled scans... tell me, what do scheduled scans
> find that real-time scanning won't catch?

Stuff that has slipped under the radar that is new in the signature files that 
wasn't there when the malware was infecting the machine.  Some stuff that might 
be significant here might be a file which writes to the HOSTS file.  It has 
already done its work, but the deep scan might find it and alert the sysadmin 
to its presence.

> Scheduled scans are about as useful as software firewalls...

For careful folks, I agree.


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