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Hello Vesselin,

You write:
>>I write:

>This is not actually a problem. Since the scanner runs in its own area
>of memory, protected from the other processes, it cannot be fooled by
>a stealth virus and cannot be made to spread a fast infector on all
>files it scans... In fact, I am wondering why a memory check is
>performed at all by an OS/2-based scanner...

Are you aware OS/2 scanners that do?  I know that IBM's Antivirus/2
has a DOS-based TSR component which scans memory when a DOS session is
started up.  But that's really an anti-viral for DOS, not OS/2.


>> - -      OS2SCAN checks "extended filenames" and HPFS-partitioned
>>        drives as well as DOS (FAT) drives.

>Do you know any way in which a known DOS virus can infect an extended
>filename on an HPFS partition?

Nope.  But I myself create directories under OS/2 HPFS with names like 
"MS-DOS 3.3 Files" and "Today's Downloads" in which I keep normal DOS
files.  I'm sure other people do as well :-)

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
Technical Support

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