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ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples) writes:

  [ about a discussion concerning potential high memory viruses ]

>Hmmm... does this imply that once we all have OS/2 or whatever on 386s
>or better, and 32-bit applications addressing oceans of flat memory
>space then we will have to wait forever for SCAN or some other to scan
>the whole bloody lot when we boot up each morning?

No. During boot, you'd simply install Virscan as your first step, and
let it trap anything that attempts to load while infected.

On booting, the memory contents are ignored and overwritten, so there's 
no need to scan it.

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