Will this happen?

[g_shocker182]

I'm learning VB and have found some adverse effects. It's led me to think about something.

If someone wrote a very small program that McAfee or Norton has never seen before, and we'll say this program has malicious code, will either of the Virus Scanners detect that its a viral program?

That is to say, if a new program was created and somehow had a line of code to delete everything in your windows folder.

[fmctm1sw]

I think you can block vb scripts with some firewalls.

[gmatov]

Script kiddies do that all the time. After a number of people are hit and submit reports to the security people they scan for the code, test it, and write a definition and maybe removal tool. I do believe Norton will report on its own, but not sure.

There is a chance Norton and McAfee will catch what "appears to be a virus", but since it hasn't the actual definition in its data base, may offer to quarantine it. Let it.

Went to Win Update, today,as MS has said it is pulling the plug on 98, as of Jan 16. It wouldn't update, said none available.

Guess I'm going to W2k for my Primary OS. openware.org seems to still be writing security patches.

Cheers,

George

[mickle]

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