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Originally posted by JoeX
Microsoft always give crap names To these things, Why cant they just give them the proper names, Ask the owner or something what they called it.
Just give them names like, For Example "NetSky"
But they called the newest one:
W32.NetSky.AB, Always having to give them big names, Which are very pointless. Just confuses people who do not know anything about viruses,
1. Microsoft does not give these viruses a name, AV companies do. Making virusses is illegal, so they couldn't just ask the creator what name he/she gave it
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2. If they would just call it "Netsky" you wouldn't know which version you have. Every new version has a slight change in it, so it's best to know if a specific removal tool works for the version you might have.
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Originally posted by JoeX
As for me, I just let them Be, If they break my PC, Then Just format, I now have a virus scanner, So it takes the problems away, So... That should be a good thing,
most people don't like to "just format" as they lose a lot of data in that way (especially if they haven't made a back up of their files).
A virus scanner is good but it's not waterproof, if you go and open every file you get by e-mail or so you have a big change of getting a new virus which hasn't been added to your virus definitions yet. You should always be carefull on the internet.
edit: no need to double post
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