Hi Barbara,

But I guess what I don't "get" about this is. . .

If the home-installed software can catch it, then surely the same copy running on the business machine(s) will catch it too.

If the software bought by the business is dependent on the presence of home software to assist it to do the complete job, then it sounds to me like there is likely a problem with the 'base' (business) software.

And if the permission to have employees/contractors of the business run it legally on their home computers is a marketing gimmick, then that is smart, but surely the most important thing is that it does the job it was bought to do.

Cheers,

Jim N

>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.
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>>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