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From: David H. Lipman on 28 Nov 2009 20:27
From: "Tim923" <tws0923(a)hotmail.com>

| I see that it's an old version, Norton 2003, but I believe I was up to date
| in updates. It sure did detect win32.pinfi, but it was too late. It wasn't
| email related. I downloaded something that didn't come from a nice official
| webpage. So I'm partly to blame. I have to ask, would AVG free have done a
| better job? Tim

Just about any other would be an improvement over Norton and Avira AntiVir stands above
their shoulders.



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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


From: John Mason Jr on 28 Nov 2009 21:51
Tim923 wrote:
> I see that it's an old version, Norton 2003, but I believe I was up to date
> in updates. It sure did detect win32.pinfi, but it was too late. It wasn't
> email related. I downloaded something that didn't come from a nice official
> webpage. So I'm partly to blame. I have to ask, would AVG free have done a
> better job? Tim
>
>
>

If you download a file and want to check it against a number of AV products

http://www.virustotal.com/

There is a file uploader available to make this even easier

http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html


John
From: Tim923 on 29 Nov 2009 11:10
Do virus scanners see what's in zip and rar files before they are
uncompressed, or is it just after?


From: David H. Lipman on 29 Nov 2009 11:38
From: "Tim923" <tws0923(a)hotmail.com>

| Do virus scanners see what's in zip and rar files before they are
| uncompressed, or is it just after?


Depends on who the vendor is and what the settings are. Most will default to seeing
within non-password protected RAR and ZIP files.

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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


From: Sir_George on 29 Nov 2009 11:40
Virus scanners can scan files that are zipped, compressed, as well as
uncompressed.

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"Tim923" <tws0923(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:heu6cv$m79$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> Do virus scanners see what's in zip and rar files before they are
> uncompressed, or is it just after?
>
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