Re: Virus in memory? I may be crazy, but....
From: Juergen Nieveler (juergen.nieveler.nospam_at_arcor.de)
Date: 06/17/05
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Date: 17 Jun 2005 16:07:47 GMT
"JCB_MCSE_wannabe" <JCBMCSEwannabe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Recently, a friend's computer (Dell workstation, Win XPPro_sp2
> w/Norton AV) apparently received a virus which was consuming the
> memory resources of his machine. He suddenly began receiving
> "insufficient memory" messages in response to just about every
> command.
Are you sure it was a virus? It could be a piece of buggy software that
uses memory but doesn't release it afterwards (usually called a "memory
leak"). Seen it often enough, especially on machines that rarely get
rebooted - it might only be a few kB per hour that get lost, but after
a couple of days you run out of memory.
Juergen Nieveler
-- If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...oh, wait a minute - he already does.
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