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

> 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?

I sincerely hope that no anti-virus program will be that stupid! Under
OS/2 in 32-bit mode, when your program (or a virus) wants to "address"
a memory chunk, it must first allocate it. And when it allocates it,
the OS nicely wipes it out. Therefore, there's virtually no hope to
"find" the virus in this way - the most you could do it to wipe it
out. But you cannot do even that, since memory allocated for one
process is protected from the other processes, so they cannot just
poke around...

Regards,
Vesselin
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