Re: a self deleting program

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The file deleting itself is not a virus activity to be detected by
antivirus.
The best example of this is a "uninstall.exe" file, it is used to
uninstall the program & also it deletes itself





On May 15, 1:27 pm, "Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)"
<rickNOSPAMn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why exactly should a virus scanner jump out an bite a
shell-to-batch-file sequence any more than a shell-to-c-app sequence?
Perhaps I am missing something, but I don't think the a virus scanner
should worry how the delete happens, only that it is happening.

Creating and executing a batch file doesn't ring alarm bells to you? (as
far as virus activity goes)

To paraphrase you... an EXE deleting itself doesn't ring alarm bells to you
(as far as virus activity goes)?

Rick


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