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To: Herb Fuller who wrote (1511)	1/16/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Fridrik Skulason	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1894

"In order for a virus scan to work the scanning program has to have the name of the virus in it . Otherwise the virus looks like it's a normal file." Uh....no, that's not how it is. First of all, the "name" of the virus has nothing to do with its detection. Second, most viruses are simply variants of older viruses - a program that detects the older virus has a pretty good chance of detecting the new variants of it. Third, even if a virus is written from scratch, anti-virus programs have a pretty good chance of detecting it. For Word macro viruses, for example, I would say that over 90% of all new viruses could easily be detected through their "virus-like" behaviour.