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Old December 25th 06, 03:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Michael D. Alligood
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Default Thank you.

And by the way, you are more than welcome. I am glad I could assist you.

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Michael D. Alligood
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Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
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"BoaterDave" wrote in message
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I really appreciate your comments, Michael.

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to help me.

Whilst I know that there are differing views, I'm now using NIS 2006 and
hope this will help protect my PC!

As I have personally not deliberately added any'bat' files to my PC, I have
deleted all but Autoexec.bat

David
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"Michael D. Alligood" wrote in message
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Almost all AV programs now have heuristics scanning. To further explain,
heuristics scanning "is similar to signature scanning, except that instead
of looking for specific signatures, heuristic scanning looks for certain
instructions or commands within a program that are not found in typical
application programs. As a result, a heuristic engine is able to detect
potentially malicious functionality in new, previously unexamined,
malicious functionality such as the replication mechanism of a virus, the
distribution routine of a worm or the payload of a trojan." (Markus
Schmall).

So along with detecting viruses by using "virus signatures", AV programs
also look for "certain instructions or commands within a program that are
not found in typical application programs." Possibly detecting your *.bat
files. While there is no golden AV program that detect all suspicious
programs, files and scripts -- and I do not want to continue this thread
with the "Best AV program" on the market, it should perform heuristic
scans to help locate these suspicious files/programs.

I hope this clears things up.

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Michael D. Alligood
MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
CIW Certified Instructor



"BoaterDave" wrote in message
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Thank you for your view, Ken.

.............. so if they *could* be, would they be identified by an
anti-virus scan?

I think not. You may know different - I'm still willing to learn!

Please see my response to Michael. Thank you.

David
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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Although it's possible that such
commands *could* be mailicious, there's nothing about their being in a
bat
file that makes them so, and most bat files by far are completely
innoucuous.

Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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