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To: shadowman who wrote (27336)	5/31/2002 3:02:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

dennis i'm clicking all over the place trying to find the list you've mentioned, to no avail! <g3> can you link the page for us? :) mark

To: shadowman who wrote (27336)	5/31/2002 4:45:58 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 110655

Yes, the list needs to be taken in the correct context. Each entry represents a signature that permits the anti-virus software to recognize a virus. So for the purposes of the software, several strains of the same type of virus can be seen as a separate virus. What has not been mentioned so far in this discussion is the heuristic capability of the virus scanning software. In some respect this is more important than the list of the actual virus definitions the software uses. The heuristic capability of anti-virus software permits the software to recognize code that is a potential virus, even when their is no signature to be found in the software's definition database. But I think this is the exception instead of the rule. Most virus scanning software is designed to utilize their virus definition database to recognize and deal with a virus. Heuristic scanning technology is not a priority for the vendor to implement in their anti-virus product. Bob Graham