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I have AVG which seems to work OK. However I tried a program called stopzilla which appeared to be safe (backed up before I tried it). I ran it (took all night) and it found 91 assorted virii, worms, spyware, adware etc. Of course it would not remove them till I registered for payment.
I have a list of the programs it found and some of them are rather strange as they exist in some old DOS batch files (rabio search enhancer) that I know are only ASCII and I have looked at the hex code which has no problems. Others are obviously real and were not found by AVG in a full scan. However I tried to run one and AVG immediately told me what it was and moved it to the virus vault and would not run.
Another one is a virus called "comet system comet cursor spyware". It is a compiled version of a quickbasic program I wrote. The code is writen in ASCII (no virus there) and compiled with the qbasic compiler and does not appear to have any problems. There is no virus in any of the other programs I have written and compiled in qbasic. This program runs OK
Anyone with further information?
Barry
PS I did this testing after I had trouble with a friends computer infected with the "windows recovery" virus
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