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Can a virus infect the anti virus software ?

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antivirus software is still software like everything else on a pc.

although the well known antivirus software manufacturers make efforts to try to stop other software (including viruses) tampering with their antivirus software, it's not always successful and antivirus software and other 'protection' software CAN be disabled by a virus if the virus is coded to do that and coded well.

'infected' in the TRUE sense of the word? not really, there are hardly *any* viruses in the wild which physically infect files by injecting their code into the *.exe program file like in the olden days - aka 'file infectors'. nearly all modern viruses and trojans just drop themselves somewhere obscure on your hard drive and put themselves in the system startup and/or hook system processes so they're ran every time you start the pc.
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no .. it can delete it .. or find ways to get around it... if you have a virus and your anti-virus won't get rid of it i would go into safe mode and run your anti-virus .. if that fails you can reformat .. witch is what i would do ... or take it to a tech ..
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its depend on the virus, if it is so dangerous or not, but always ur computer only!
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Yes it is always possible. It depends on virus having new technology, strength of Antivirus program. At least both of them are programs
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unfortunately, yeah
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Absolutely!

A while back a Virus used Norton Antivirus as a delivery mechanism.
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ya. when the anti virus is weak then virus
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not really if you have a virus the anti virus sofware will nt help so you willhave to get a technishian
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no only ur pc
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it can coz a virus is a software...
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yes, the virus can inffect through programs or pc,

but the anti-virus can heal the viruses.
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yes,it can affect it.Read the whole to find out how kaspersky's Malaysian website got affected.

http://www.jaystech.com/2008/07/kaspersk...
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