Hi Allie, On Sunday, October 27, 2002 19:40 your local time, (Monday, 06:25 my local time), you wrote:
> An A-V scanner that stops and weeds out files just based on their > file type isn't really a scanner. I don't think this behavior is hard-coded into any reputable AV scanners so they cannot be blamed on their entirety - they should have an option to disable heuristic analysis feature. But, if an AV package does this by default, with no option to turn it off, then I agree with you: it's not really a scanner And in case of Kaspersky (or in case of Simons' copy of it), the heuristic feature was probably turned on by default. AVG also has this feature but is turned off by default. Maybe Dr. Web also has an option to use heuristics <shrug> -- be well, Sudip Pokhrel | /"\ PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign PGP Key ID: 0xD93F5185 | X Against HTML E-mail ! http://pgpkeys.mit.edu | / \ ___________________________________________________________________ Religion cannot be without morality, but morality may arrive without religion ___________________ TB! v1.61 on XP Pro| P4-1.6Ghz 256MB RAM| ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
