Hello there, Saturday, November 9, 2002, 4:04:53 PM, Marck D Pearlstone wrote:
MDP> <...> AV software spotting a viral infection in a file with a MDP> non-executable extension. This is not a risk to anyone - MDP> professional or not. <...> Before this becomes a dead horse I just wanted to make a side note, since there is always an exception to the rule. Some days ago, someone brought me a supposedly infected laptop. I first scanned all executable files (.exe, .bat etc) and indeed found the bugbear virus. Then I scanned all files, and discovered that bugbear had also infected the system's cpy files which are files used from the system recovery tool for recovery purposes. If an unknowledgeable user had restored a system configuration using the infected cpy files, the laptop would get infected once again. All this means that infected files, even if not executable, can be a potential danger in some cases. Maybe not for you, me, or anybody else in this list, but surely for an unknowledgeable user. Just for the story, I had to disable system recovery in order to be able to delete the files... -- Best regards, Alexander Cicovic Using The Bat! 1.61 under Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
