On Tue, 08 Apr 2014, alexander koryagin wrote to Paul Quinn:   
      
    ak>> There are two reason why your computer works slowly. It has    
    ak>> either a virus, or an anti-virus.   
      
    PQ> Are you speaking from experience? ;-)   
      
    ak> No, but I believe it must be true. There are so many viruses now    
    ak> and their amount is growing up significantly, every year. As for    
    ak> me, I don't use an anti-virus that works constantly. When I've got    
    ak> a virus I load my computer from the USB boot disk and run a    
    ak> program for virus scanning.   
      
   i fear that you would be in extremely dire straights if you were infested with   
   the ripper virus then... it is quite insidious...   
      
   http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/ripper.shtml   
      
   [quote]   
   Activity   
      
   Ripper has stealth capabilities; the virus code cannot be seen in boot records   
   while the virus is active in memory.   
      
   Ripper contains a destructive activation routine. It corrupts disk writes by   
   random - approximately one disk write in 1000 is corrupted. The virus will   
   swap two words in the write buffer, causing slow and in some cases   
   difficult-to-notice corruption on the hard disk.   
   [/quote]   
      
   an extremely nasty critter for sure...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   One of the great tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a   
   gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin   
      
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