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Old 11-05-2005, 12:46 AM
Flash Gordon
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Default Re: Running program files on XP with non-executable extension?

Leythos wrote:
> In article <1131033952.512278.87400@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
> bughunter.dustin@gmail.com says...
>
>>As I said, I've been in the vx side for many years. I'm well versed on
>>both aspects of it, from antivirus perspective as well as vx
>>perspective. I'm not giving my opinion per say, I'm giving that of the
>>general consensus of both the Av and Vx side of things.

>
> That's great for them and you - not being snide here, but, as I said
> before, never seen a false positive on more than 1500 systems, and we'll
> continue to use it scanning all files on access.


It may be rare, but it does happen.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?clien...=Google+Search
I've actually seen a tarball from Cygwin be reported as a virus.

Having said that, on corporate machine I would generally set it to scan
all files myself.
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