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When virus scans are there certain directories they skip?
From: jim.halfpenny at gmail.com (Jim Halfpenny)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:25:01 +0100
It depends on the AV software and how it is configured. Many packages allow for whitelisting files or directories so that they do not get scanned, useful if you have a legitimate tool which is flagged as malicious. There's no reason why malware could not try to subvert this behaviour to hide themseleves if that's your line of thinking. Jim 2009/8/21 Dimitrios Kapsalis <dimitrios at gmail.com>
Was thinking this afternoon, when anti-virus scans run, are there certain directories that they always skip? _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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