From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKDqt-0001F4-OP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:41:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 217D021C0CA; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0A421C08D for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh21 with SMTP id 21so383152wyh.40 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:40:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=n1JtQiOqyWwMaqwLRrzVe7YLbueIz4+3R5gPoSlN6Bg=; b=qn4/JSC/C8kg7HyoIWvWqZ+F5OjVAToaCx09Oxnwooz2+SjIuvV9te8S9gNr46xhGU 2mc/Jz6CAfqDIWcU80ocv0YcX26slfviAQNrJpQ1KIShSQjwpJNJWz+bL6sVErWOvuX6 RcDJN+Rt+xdH+jGaNWlg5yPC22koyYX5Mg4hg= Received: by 10.227.199.5 with SMTP id eq5mr10291677wbb.2.1319913645679; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ff6sm22597503wbb.10.2011.10.29.11.40.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus? Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:40:49 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201110221227.43568.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201110291912.09456.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1829772.Bra7EvVqrQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110291940.52957.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dbf9de8373feb339e3f562450d1d2ab8 --nextPart1829772.Bra7EvVqrQ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:25:00 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Oct 30, 2011 1:15 AM, "Mick" wrote: > > pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. >=20 > 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=20 wife if it picked up anything lately. > > Hmm .... it also thinks that some Batman Begins TS_01_0.VOB files (a ba= ck >=20 > up I >=20 > > made of a legit DVD) are "... a decompression bomb!" Puleeeeeze! o_O >=20 > 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 b= it=20 jumpy unnecessarily it seems! :)) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1829772.Bra7EvVqrQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6sSLQACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYhDACgtmRYfFgcPvLuFg795D7sFHLE CFQAoPjLJYkPYi8ZCa0zo99pMYT7h3RM =j5+2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1829772.Bra7EvVqrQ--