On 11 Mar 2005 at 19:40, Mike Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running Win XP Home SP2 and I have religiously maintained current
> Norton Antivirus definitions and have done weekly virus scans. In fact,
> I recently ran a free online scan from the Trend Micro website. All
> scans have been consistently negative.
>
> Today I downloaded and ran the free version of Avast antivirus and it
> found the Win95 Spaces virus in an mp3 file that I had downloaded over a
> year ago. I then scanned that specific file with NAV and it did not
> find a virus.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this disparity? Is there a "gold standard"
> virus scan that I can do? Will simply deleting the mp3 file solve the
> problem?
Seems to be a false positive (i.e. a false identification).
what I do, in such cases is to decide to which AV I believe, and then send
an e-mail to the other one, with the suspect attached (in fact - zipped
with "infected" as a password, and attached). In the message I explain why
I think that their product is wrong, and I also give the password (the
password is in order to prevent intermediate servers (MTAs) from removing
it if they identify it as a virus).
The address for such in Avast is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I believe that it is not
the formal address, but he does check those samples).
The address in Symantec, is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spaces should no longer exist in the wild. It is a too old virus, which
should not be expected to be found in files with mp3 extensions, neither
in modern computers.
Uzi
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