Known virus scanning is a far from perfect method for achieving this, but as the only intelligent method of achieving it has been entirely disregarded by users, AV and OS developers, scanning is pretty much what we are left with.
To which method are you referring here? --- Shoshannah Forbes http://www.xslf.com
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