Re: Question about Viruses

[Axel Pettinger <api () worldonline de>]

Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> I was thinking more along the lines of since most AV still tries to
> disinfect/clean a file, rather than assume it is a whole virus, that 
> a programmer could insert the recognized code with the unrecognized 
> code attached, the program would report the file being cleaned and
> everything is back to normal. If this is stupid, please let me know,
> as I am not a programmer and not sure if this is how things work.
>
> This way the engine wouldnt submit the new virus to the parent 
> company for developers to figure out a removal procedure.

http://www.peterszor.com/idea.pdf

Have a look at the beginning of the second page ...

Regards,
Axel Pettinger
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