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To: Larry S. who wrote (36235)	8/31/2003 1:55:12 AM
From: mr.mark	of 110652

"what does it mean: "it uses ZA's VSMON.VXD as its host" is it still safe to use ZA.?" yes it's safe unless the trojan shows up. the post you reference is about a worm that places a trojan in a zonealarm driver file. all uninvited guests have to take up residence somewhere on a hard drive. this one chooses to live in a za file. keep in mind that a firewall alone is defenseless against a trojan entering your machine.... that's why we run AVs and ATs. but when a trojan decides to live in a zonealarm .vxd file, it's hiding itself in a security program, thereby making things like removal quite complicated, not to mention ironic... or as nancy said, Phunky. hth

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