virus check all drives ??

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I use XP Pro. It runs on c. I have d, e, f, g paritions used for data.
Why would I ask any virus checker to check files on d, e, f, g ?
Always have, never thought about it. Now I need the time.
Any virus use other / data drives?
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I use XP Pro. It runs on c. I have d, e, f, g paritions used for data.
Why would I ask any virus checker to check files on d, e, f, g ?
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Because you may well have infected files on those other partitions that do sometimes get executed.

Most obviously with keygens in downloaded stuff.
Always have, never thought about it. Now I need the time.
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Any virus use other / data drives?
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Yep, they can do.
 
I use XP Pro. It runs on c. I have d, e, f, g paritions used for data.
Why would I ask any virus checker to check files on d, e, f, g ?
Click to expand...

Because the virus-checker wants to make *sure* that there are no files there
that could be used to carry the virus further.

"data-files only" may *sound* nice, but I hope you are aware that many of
todays "data-files" are somethimes collections of both data and active
content (MS .DOC) ?

I could regard a .js file as data (it can't run on its own), but it
certainly can hold active content. And what about WMF (which had a huge
security-hole) or an SWF file ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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