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| Thread ID: 32361 | 2003-04-16 08:25:00 | I Have Had Worms, So Why Didn't Norton's Detect Them When Doing A Scan? | Pauline (641) | Press F1 |
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| 136243 | 2003-04-17 03:46:00 | Yeah - the nature of many worms and RATs is that they emulate proper legit programmes, and therefore can be easily overlooked by even the most proficient anti-v scan. It would be surprising however if their signature was already in Norton's database and you were completely up-to-date. I assume that this wasn't the case. | Greg S (201) | ||
| 136244 | 2003-04-17 06:30:00 | My mum sent me to the doctor for the detection of worms Are you saying that Nortons is not good enough? |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 136245 | 2003-04-17 09:14:00 | By the way (BTW) I wouldn't blame Incredimail per se. Blame the person who sent you an infected Email. I have tried Incredimail and think it is great but don't use it myself as I can't easily Export messages and contacts and Import again when I do a reformat of the hard drive. I use Outlook 2002 and can Export the lot to a *.PST file which I can then Import back into Outlook. I can also use fancy backgrounds, fancy fonts and animated GIFs in Outlook if I want to. A lot of people don't want to wait for ages for YOUR message to download so therefore I normally send my message as plain text. My point is that you can't blame Incredimail. Just because I'm not using it that doesn't mean you can't. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 136246 | 2003-04-17 12:49:00 | Thanks for all the replies. I do still have faith in Norton's but not as much as I used to. The infected files weren't from anyone known. They were those ones that don't use very good english/ spelling is all up the shoot. My daughter used Incredimail to access her Hotmail accounts & didn't open mail that looked queer. I'm just glad that the worms were detected & we got them removed even if Norton's didn't find them in the first place. I have checked the options for what to scan & they all look fine. Ad-aware must do a more thorough scan than Norton's does for those files to show up. Pauline. |
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