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There are circumstances when signature of a virus exists
in RAM without being active.
If a scanner reports a virus active in memory only
occasionally, it could be due to OS buffering disk reads.
This keeps disk contents that include a virus in memory (for
e.g. reading boot sector of an infected diskette) After running
some scanner, there may be scan strings left in memory and it
also leads to a false alarm.