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11. What happens if a file containing a virus is camouflaged inside a seemingly harmless file?
Although camouflaged files containing encrypted 'virused' files would pass through a virus-checker, as the virus itself would be encrypted (and therefore scrambled), it could not possibly be triggered or cause any harm. Opening a camouflaged file simply reads the archive information, which would again not trigger any hidden viruses. The only way a virus could be triggered would be to extract a file from the Camouflaged file and then run that file (which would have to be capable of containing a virus, for example, an .exe, .com, script file or Word document) without first checking it.
If you're concerned about viruses, simply extract the files from the camouflaged file and scan them using your virus checker
My directories are clean...another worm possibly infected the file and is causing this behaviour, or it is downloaded from a 3rd party site.
uninstalling cleans itself out fine, too.
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The Ecstasy (MDMA) Bible Thread 2.0
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you win again dude - and nice move shoving the whole i figured out how to order pizza thing in my face. i tried that 4 and a half months ago and woke up with a Taiwanese transvestite but to Ygrene it's just, "anoother day in the life, noooo biggieee".
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) but i did virus scan.... and it came up with 4 infected files... all of which i know where i got and know what files they r... they r little gay exe thingys.... i cleaned em all... but still the same happens... i d/l'ed from the file sharing area wher danceaddict posts his tunes.... so maybe other files in there are or have been infected?????? i dont know.... maybe im clutching at straws, but i suggest be careful, incase it is sumthing from there, but probably im wrong ????!!???? 
