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Date:	Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:02:09 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Anti-virus programs

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In
<20020803045700.KQID8052.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@mailhost.worldnet.att.net>,
on 08/02/02
at 08:57 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>>Nice of them to provide easy access to this although it probably applies
>>only the the WinXX versions of the product.

>He partially quoted my previous message:

That I did. :-)

>So what it comes down to is that any new virus will infect some machines
>before it is reported and additional machines before a signature update
>is issued, downloaded, and used by everyone.

Pretty much. I'm sure the ISV's do what they can to be the first to be
infected, but it's a crap shoot. For example, they probably have a set of
email address that they try to get on every spammers address list.

>Has the Norton or the McAfee search engine been disabled by a virus?

Probably.

Steven

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