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[Frank Bax]

At 01:43 PM 10/13/04, Jukka Y wrote:

>On Wednesday 13 October 2004 17:25, Frank Bax wrote:
> > At 05:29 PM 10/12/04, Fred Miller wrote:
> > >The current definitions for Symantec AntiVirus can detect but NOT
> > >remove this malicious software!!
> >
> > This is as it should be.  Why would AntiVirus software be expected to
> > remove spyware?  They are different threats.  I have seen several spyware
> > threats that NAV has detected and not removed.  When Norton/Symantec comes
> > out with AV-AS software, then it can be expected to remove spyware threats.
> >
> > Frank
>
>I don't see why antivirus software couldn't remove spyware as well as viruses
>etc. I realized this when had to setup a windows computer to my friend and
>she wanted to know why she needed a different programs for spyware and
>viruses. I couldn't give her a good answer - aren't customers just happy if
>they could do all cleaning with one program?


I totally agree that it would be a great idea if one program did it all, 
but an "Anti-Virus" program shouldn't be "expected" to remove threats that 
are not virii.  Give the program another name and there is no reason why it 
couldn't deal with both threats.