23 Oct
2003
23 Oct
'03
4:38 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:59:47AM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
And virii that infect the immune system can be fun too --imagine a virus infecting your antiviral program. HIV for Windows.
Or a virus that modifes your other programs to make them appear to be known virii. You'd have to turn off your AV progams to keep them from destroying your files (or moving them around, going crazy with warnings when you start any program, etc) I'd bet that no AV programs have safeguards against this sort of false positive attack. Eric