A case in point is the recent virus affecting email. If a home-based worker has it, it can spread into the office system very quickly.

>Hi Jim,
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>I think possibly that if you have a virus on your home machine (one running in memory like a TSR) that affects all EXEs, COMs, etc. that you access, and you run an EXE on the RA server machine (the company machine), the file could be affected.
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>I don't know for sure, but I would think that this is possible. I don't know if virus detection software checks every write to the hard drive made by remote machines. If it doesn't, a virus could get through.
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>Again, I am no expert on this subject. I am just presenting what I feel might be a possibility.
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>Take care,
>Joe