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This article is from the Computer Viruses FAQ, by Nick FitzGerald n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz with numerous contributions by others.

56 , or from the original media. You should try to disinfect filesonly if they contain some valuable data that cannot be restored frombackups or recompiled from their original source.

 

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