Fact Attack wrote:
> how stupid can all this anti-virus software possibly be? Doesn't even
> search .exe files first, sits there and goes through my mp3 files and
> mpg files, that is so stupid i cannot believe it.
>
It is not so stupid when you think about it. If I were going
to infect a number of computers, I would certainly not put it
in a *.exe file. Any worthwile AVG already has a checksum for
the *.exe, *.com, *.bat, etc., and other executable files that
are already installed in the computer. If that checksum balances,
then there is no need to check them further. Besides, it is too
obvious to set up a strange executable file and this is the role
of having up-to-date virus definitions. But it would be more
ingenious to embed the malware code into a song, picture, webpage,
etc., and invoke Java or Active-X to set it off. The anti-virus
definitions really have to work to detect these snippets of code.
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