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I'm a Network Administrator.

I've had it up to here *points past head* with viruses. I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before, and why large software companies haven't thought of this (yet?) either, but here it goes:

Considering that most viruses of this generation have an internal list of processes to kill (anti-virus or firewall programs), would it be an effective use of my time to try to rename my firewall and/or anti-virus program filenames?

What would I have to consider? The Windows registry, any configuration files (I suppose)? Would anyone have any idea if doing this would harm an installation of the software (ie, do any of the software programs reference a constant filename?) Does anyone have any experience doing this?

What if the large software companies that build these programs modified their build process so that during the installation all the references could be changed to reflect the new, randomly chosen filename?

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