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Hello Douglas!
On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 10:49:33 PM you wrote:
> I found 3 readme.exe files on my system, from 1994 & 1996, 2 are 8
> kb & seem to mouse related, the other (the oldest) is 169 kb & is in
> the operating system's main directory.
> I assume that none of these are virus related. Is that assumption
> valid?
IME one can't rely on dates, there are a lot of ways to manipulate
them, some of them bugs in Win9x itself.
The question is, why should there be an executable Readme?
I use two things before discarding or deleting files I don't know of.
First I run a virus check with the newest definitions (F-Secure). If
that doesn't come up with anything I look at the file in a hex editor,
searching for telltale readable "code" in the ASCII portion.
This way I found the last big threat - this malware bringing with it
its own SMTP server - because I saw a call for the DUN.
When this doesn't bring up anything, I move the file to another hard
drive into a directory designated for superfluous/deletable files.
After a few days or weeks without trouble I delete these files.
Hope that helps.
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Dierk Haasis
http://www.Write4U.de
PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys
The Bat 1.54 Beta/9 on Windows 95 4.0 1212 C
Sonar no cuesta nada (Tr�umen kostet nichts.).
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