Re: UPHClean / MS antivirus

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Yves Leclerc wrote:

> btw: The software "Giant" is not an anti-virus system . It is Giant
> "CounterSpy" anti-spyware system. Soywares are not "officially"
> considered to be virues yet!


You are correct that a spyware program is not a virus. However, it has
nothing to do with "officlally" or "yet." Despite the way many people use
the term "virus" to mean any form of malicious software, that's a very loose
use of the term, and is not what a virus actually is.

The term "virus" simply means self-replicating software. The software
doesn't even have to be malicious to be a virus (although it almost always
is). For more information, read
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=virus


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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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