Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:25:00 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2011 1:15 AM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> > pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO.
> 
> If pagefile.sys is detected as a malware, most likely the actual malware
> was once loaded into (Windows XP's) memory got swapped, and avast! picked
> up its remnant. Loaded into memory doesn't mean that the malware was
> active, if the Windows XP was equipped with a good antivirus.

Interesting!  The WinXP has Microsoft Security Essentials on it.  I'll ask my 
wife if it picked up anything lately.

> > Hmm .... it also thinks that some Batman Begins TS_01_0.VOB files (a back
> 
> up I
> 
> > made of a legit DVD) are "... a decompression bomb!"  Puleeeeeze!  o_O
> 
> AFAIK "decompression bomb" is just avast!'s colorful way of saying that
> "this file is compressed, and I can't uncompress it to scan its contents,
> because there's not enough RAM to do a decompression."

Oh!  I see ...

(I was in close proximity when bombs were going off in London and I get a bit 
jumpy unnecessarily it seems! :))

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Regards,
Mick

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