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To: mr.mark who wrote (33649)	4/7/2003 10:19:36 PM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110581

you may be shocked to hear that i uninstalled NAV Nah, you gotta stay flexible. You sound like a man with a plan. Don't you just love it when a plan comes to fruition. Snug as a bug in a rug! tc :-) ps: one more cliche and I'll be banned so I'll stop there.

To: mr.mark who wrote (33649)	4/8/2003 12:23:07 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110581

Mr. Mark, I didn't realize that scanning inside zip files was not a routine process for all the virus scanners. Perhaps some are just better than others at this task. What I wonder now that you've pointed this out is whether this is a serious deficit with many of the AV programs. I'm relieved that the virus you found was not in a zip file. Have you considered that the virus that KAV found could have been a false positive? I'm almost positive that the only virus I ever found on my machine is a false positive. Only AVG found it, and not other internet scanners that I tried to verify it. In addition the location was unlikely, an .exe file that I have used everyday for months. I'm not saying that the Worm.KakWorm hasn't infected that email message. But it is a possibility if KAV is the only program that finds it. Now that I've though more about this, an email is similar to a compressed file, isn't it? Hmmm... Esteban