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    Registered User Vette's Avatar
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    Exclamation Gotta Love it!!

    I had a computer come into the shop today and the owner said they thought they had a virus. "After further review", they did have the Magistr.A strain. They were running PC_Cillian and it was up to date, but it didn't catch the virus. I used housecall.antivirus.com (which is made by the same people that make PC-Cillian)to scan the computer and of the 23 infected files, unbelieveably 3 of PC-Cillians files were infected!! I question the effectiveness of that antivirus program.

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    I have over a hundred computers on one of my networks using pccillin for the 2 years i've been here with no infections. I'd bet the installation was incorrect, or that you saw a variant that had been altered to get around either that program or AV programs in general. I make a habit of submitting the virus when i see something funky like that......

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    I've also seen where housecall said there was no virus on the machine, but other antivirus programs found infected files. Never submitted these, but used the others to clean the drive.

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    I bet the system was infected prior to the installation of PC-Cillin

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