If you know what your doing, using simple rules, you don't need any virus protection at all - I have none, yet I've never lost anything to a virus. Just make sure the offending app is not running, delete it's file, delete it's registry entries - and that's it.
It makes you wonder what all the fuss is about. I reckon the media likes to blow them out of proportion, like the millenium bugs that would end the world. I've written sneakier software in VB than a lot of viruses - like my windows front end, it's a menu type thing so the monkeys that work in the wafer fab at work can use the computer without a bib. Anyhoo, it's not visible in the task bar, it can hide itself away then leap into action when it has to, and if you do manage to stop it running, or if it crashes - it just loads itself back up again
. It's the result of a long battle with one of the engineers, I'd do something, then he'd try and break it - wen't on like this until he admitted defeat
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I reckon the most pathetic virus was that one the affected MSN messenger, it could'nt really replicate itself, so it would pretend to be some silly game through messenger, that you had to click and download then run to get infected
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Van-B
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