> That depends on how broken it is.

I guess that's the problem with this virus. It is so badly written.

> Beyond a certain amount of loss of the complete virus, there 
> isn't enough left to know what it was supposed to be, and besides, if
what 
> you've got isn't the  complete Mimail virus, it shouldn't be labelled
to suggest that it is.
> 
> If what you have is a damaged piece of viral code, does it really
matter which 
> virus it was before it got damaged?

In some cases, yes. I am having a statistics where I would like to know
which virus it was instead of "Seriously Broken Zip". I don't think
that's a bad thing, but why shouldn't it possible to have a signature of
this damaged virus?

Regards,
Phil.



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