> That would be true if virus scanners were otherwise benign.  Unfortunately
> they have to get into the system deeply and intercept things between
> programs to do their job.  As a result they have various undesirable side
> effects (how often have you seen software installation instructions tell
> you to disable all virus software first?).

        Agreed, which is why I only let a virus scanner do what it did 5 years ago:
scan files when I want it to. No virus scanner runs resident on my system,
it is only invoked when I MANUALLY run it. Most of the problems I've dealt
with on people's systems, that were not hardware related, were related,
either directly or indirectly, to a piece of virus software doing something
it shouldn't. TTYL

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