I once used "Teleport" to download about 15Gbytes of "freeware" programs,
you know the ones - Webcam ControlCenter (WCC), Winscope, etc. That was
about 1 year ago.
Every time I scan the computer I find that one of the 66,000 ZIP files
contains a program containing a virus. I delete, re-scan - no virus to be
found.
A week later I update the virus scan program (NAV) and sure enough, there's
yet another one in there, even though I never added to the collection. The
whole lot have been scanned week, after week, after week, and today I am
STILL deleting the odd infected file.
There's never a virus active, just stored in some ZIP or LHA file. If I
exclude that directory root then the computer is always clean.
So, are old viruses being newly discovered and entered into the virus update
signature files? Is it possible that some bit of ASCII art or HTML has some
sort of virus number-code sequence?
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