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Zagor

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Saturday 14th-669, INFECTED?
« on: November 30, 2005, 02:33:06 PM »
Hi,
I did a demand scan with avast pro and here is what I got:
Process 1500, memory block 0x00D46000, block size 159744
Infection: Saturday 14th-669
Is there reason to be afraid or this is...

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Re: Saturday 14th-669, INFECTED?
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2005, 02:34:39 PM »
I don't think so.
Sounds more like a false alarm - I don't know how a trace of an old DOS virus might get into your Windows memory.

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Re: Saturday 14th-669, INFECTED?
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2005, 02:56:49 PM »
Thanks Igor!
If you have the time, I'm interested in one more thing:
Setting up Avast response on virus detection, when I want to set repair, I'm not quite sure about the explanation regarding macro viruses.
Is it safe (for the document) to put remove all macros?

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Re: Saturday 14th-669, INFECTED?
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2005, 03:32:22 PM »
Well, safe... if there were any original (uninfected) macros in the document, they would be removed as well - which may not be what you really want. I mean, they may be missing from the document later. I'm not sure how likely it is (the number of macroviruses is low today anyway), but I wouldn't use the setting personally.

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Re: Saturday 14th-669, INFECTED?
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2005, 05:14:15 PM »
I wouldn't use the setting personally.
Me either...
AntiVir has this feature too, full remove, as depending on the Heuristic level, it will delete all macros of *.dot (Word Templates) files and the Excel templates as well.
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Re: Saturday 14th-669, INFECTED?
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2005, 10:10:01 PM »
O.K.  :D
Thank you very much!
I'm one of those who like to be thorough (meaning that if there is any extra button for detection to check, I will press it, on the cost of scan to last for ages!). But even I have the common sense  :P
Again, thanks, this was helpful!