Checking of Attachments For Viruses

[Mike Hardie]

Perhaps a list member can answer a couple of questions for a "computer
challenged" person, namely yours truly:  1) I've received the happy 99
virus attacnment several times from list members, undoubtedly
unintentionally, but my virus checker has never detected it so far as I can
tell. Is this normal?  The attachments were deleted, not opened, and I
checked the individual files where the virus was supposed to reside and
nothing was there.  Does the virus checker not detect/eliminate viruses in
an attachment until the opening the attachment is attempted?  2) Someone on
the list mentioned scanning an attachment before opening it, how is this
done with Norton Anti-virus?

Mike VE7MMH at: hardiem at intergate.bc.ca

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