Checking of Attachments For Viruses

[wa1vwl]

It's not enough to have an anti-virus program running on your machine.
It must be current! That is to say, new viruses come out every week.
Your old program may only be configured to detect what was available
last week-or-so. That's why the serious companies engaged in anti-virus
software detection have so-called automatic updates available on their
web sites. Sometimes even that isn't enough. The company where I work is
one that was targeted and mentioned in the national news media when the
Melissa virus hit. It was too new and spread too fast. Additionally some
of my co-workers were careless. And some of them are software engineers!
The best thing to do is what you did. You didn't open the file, you
deleted it.

73/Gerry/W1ID

Mike Hardie wrote:
>
> 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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