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Thank you.
Ooops! Sorry about that - I was deep in thought and sent the blank response
in error. Perhaps it was Divine intervention - I then saw the post from Kerry Brown. Or, as he's known elsewhere, TechB. What you couldn't know, gls858, is that my younger son, Nick, who would have been 36 tomorrow, tragically collapsed and died almost 8 years ago. No cause for his death was found. He was a computer guru, with a first class degree in Physics, and worked for ICL. He could *always* answer my queries ........ and I miss him. I appreciate *your* help. Thank you. My basic understanding now is that, as a 'bat' file is not a 'virus' per se, it would (probably) not be picked up by an anti-virus programme. However, I suspect that if such a file was surepticiously placed on one's PC, it could issue commands to make one's PC do just about anything, including being able to make adjustments to, in my case, NIS 2006. If I'm right about this (and I recognise that I may have got it wrong yet again!) unless one specifically seeks out a suspicious 'bat' file, one's PC could apparently be working normally whilst, at the same time, be acting as a 'zombie' for unscrupulous persons unknown. (Perhaps that is what my 'script kiddie' meant - he's no academic, that's for sure!) Referring to the post from KB, I'd just mention that he 'advises' on the N/g to which I was lured (by email) following posts I made here with MS back in February. I was highly suspicious then, and still feel that there may be those with malicious intent residing there (perhaps using the PC's of other newsgroup members as zombies too - just my theory!). I'm aware that some 'members' there scan these MS newsgroups - perhaps looking for other vulnerable 'clients' - I could determine no other reason. I didn't know what a 'Troll' was this time last year. All I've been trying to do is identify just how the 'bad guys' wreak havoc on the 'Net, not simply 'clean' my own machine. FWIW (and I didn't know what that meant either, then! g) David __________________________________________________ ____ "gls858" wrote in message ... It's not the fact that's it's a .bat file that makes it good or bad it's the commands that it contains. A .bat is simply a series of commands. If you want to see the contents of a .bat file simply right click and select edit. If you or your so called "script kiddie" don't understand the commands contained in the batch file I would suggest you find a real computer programmer to explain to you what the file is intended to do. Batch files are commonly used to perform redundant tasks on a schedule. gls858 |
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