hiya,

I dunno whether you can get the new scienetist magazine over there in OZ, i think you probably can, but there have an excellent article on how virus scanners are working and how there trying to build more intellengent virus software, that can find viri before there even known.

At the moment virus scanners search for patterns and the likes on the harddisk, new ones are likely to search for behaviour types.

as for the antidote one thing i would suggest doing, is learn to understand ASM (assembly) so you can decompile viri, find out what they do and then remove that with either a a script file (anything from BAT files to Python or perl would work) or even create your own .exe in C or other high level to remove the infect components.

this process can be called reverse engineering, this is name is often associated with software cracking, although its alway applied to electronics, and other legal stuff

i2c