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"edgewalker" <null DeleteThis @null.invalid> wrote:

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>"Frankster" <Frank DeleteThis @SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message news:b56dndS2hM0I3RHZnZ2dnUVZ_oOdnZ2d@giganews.com...
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>> You often see folks declaring that this or that AV scanner "found" viruses
>> that your installed AV was not reporting. This happens a lot because your
>> installed AV has placed them in a "safe" (i.e. deleted, quarantined or some
>> such) directory and the new AV is not aware of their (already found) status
>> or location, so it reports them as newly found! Routine.
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>> Just something to note.
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>Something else to note is that better scanners will encrypt quarantined malware
>so that not only will it be no longer detectable - it will be no longer executable
>unless and until it is decrypted by that AV program.
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Thanks. I assume therefore that (free) AVG doesn't fall into this
'better' class? Can you give any examples that do please? Presumably,
*their* quarantined files would not later be reported by other spyware
programs?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

"Frankster" <Frank DeleteThis @SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote:

>Sorry, forgot to address your question...
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>> But your point is, of course, a different one, and surprises me. Can I
>> be sure I have it straight please? Surely the Quarantine areas for the
>> files that my AV has already found and removed does not contain files
>> which represent any risk? So why would another spyware detection
>> program report them as such?
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>> --
>> Terry, West Sussex, UK
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>Each V/SW/GW program cannot know the "safe/temp" storage locations of every
>other program. So they don't even try.
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Thanks for both posts, Frank, very useful.

On the "safe/temp" storage issue, I had clearly been wrongly assuming
that the 'quarantine' process *did* something drastic to the culprit,
not merely placed it in a new folder. So that lead to my assumption
that any subsequent 'spyware detector' would not regard it as a risk.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK