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Bagle remover...dangerous precedent?
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  • Subject: Bagle remover...dangerous precedent?
  • From: paul at westpoint.ltd.uk (Paul Johnston)
  • Date: Fri Jan 23 04:39:22 2004
  • In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi,

>For me, if I turn off safe checks I usually expect something to go horribly wrong. If the worst case of "horribly wrong" is that a virus gets partially removed by this plugin, then I'd feel lucky....
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Yeah, if you do a full scan of an unpatched Win2k box, it will reboot at 
least twice during testing as well as generating numerous error messages 
as popup dialogs, not to mention event viewer.

Paul

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