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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:44:39 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Anti-Virus program

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In <0H0300E5KJ07YP@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 07/30/02
at 08:26 PM, sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro) said:

>>Has anybody heard of an OS2 system being infected with a virus lately?
>>Just about all of them in the wild are microsoft macro infectors. You'd
>>need to be really unlucky to get an old boot virus. You're probably
>>better off spending that money on Worldcom stock.

>On a routine virus check, I found that a Microsoft Word document that
>someone had sent me was infected. The anti-virus program detected the
>virus and disinfected the document file.

>I was glad I caught it before I sent it on to someone else.

Yep. While it's true that there are very few known OS/2 native virii,
though a few do exist, the most important reason for running a native OS/2
virus checker to is to avoid propogating WinXX virii.

As Odin becomes more capable, the ability of WinXX virii to survive on and
damage an OS/2 system increases. The same is true for WinXX OS's running
in VPC sessions.

Steven

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