Re: Uh-oh! Zipped a virus

Nomen Nescio <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Dec 2020 01:02:50 -0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	alt.comp.anti-virus
Organization	dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider
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[email protected] writes:

> Am assuming if I never ran the
> program, the virus stayed contained????

In most cases that's correct. However, back in the old days (like, late
90s) setup.exe was usually started automatically. I'm not sure if that's
still the case, didn't use Windows for many, many years.

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