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Happy new year everyone.
Anyway, I decided to download a screensaver via Hotmail today. As everyone who uses it knows, Hotmail scans for viruses in attachments using McAfee and up to now, I completely trusted it. But not anymore! As soon as the file was downloaded, this pop up appeared:
Virus Identified I-Worm/Yaha.K
is found in file (file location)
I only knew about this virus because of AVG - but what of the thousands of others who trust Hotmail's virus checking system? No doubt they will probably have viruses on their system.
On a releated matter, I can't find the file - the pop up windows says it's in the Temp Internet Files folder in the COntent.IE5 folder, but there was no such folder (or any, for that matter) in the Temp Internet files. Anyone have an idea where it's stored?
Anyway, I decided to download a screensaver via Hotmail today. As everyone who uses it knows, Hotmail scans for viruses in attachments using McAfee and up to now, I completely trusted it. But not anymore! As soon as the file was downloaded, this pop up appeared:
Virus Identified I-Worm/Yaha.K
is found in file (file location)
I only knew about this virus because of AVG - but what of the thousands of others who trust Hotmail's virus checking system? No doubt they will probably have viruses on their system.
On a releated matter, I can't find the file - the pop up windows says it's in the Temp Internet Files folder in the COntent.IE5 folder, but there was no such folder (or any, for that matter) in the Temp Internet files. Anyone have an idea where it's stored?
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Happy new year everyone.
Anyway, I decided to download a screensaver via Hotmail today. As everyone who uses it knows, Hotmail scans for viruses in attachments using McAfee and up to now, I completely trusted it. But not anymore! As soon as the file was downloaded, this pop up appeared:
Virus Identified I-Worm/Yaha.K
is found in file (file location)
I only knew about this virus because of AVG - but what of the thousands of others who trust Hotmail's virus checking system? No doubt they will probably have viruses on their system.
On a releated matter, I can't find the file - the pop up windows says it's in the Temp Internet Files folder in the COntent.IE5 folder, but there was no such folder (or any, for that matter) in the Temp Internet files. Anyone have an idea where it's stored?
Anyway, I decided to download a screensaver via Hotmail today. As everyone who uses it knows, Hotmail scans for viruses in attachments using McAfee and up to now, I completely trusted it. But not anymore! As soon as the file was downloaded, this pop up appeared:
Virus Identified I-Worm/Yaha.K
is found in file (file location)
I only knew about this virus because of AVG - but what of the thousands of others who trust Hotmail's virus checking system? No doubt they will probably have viruses on their system.
On a releated matter, I can't find the file - the pop up windows says it's in the Temp Internet Files folder in the COntent.IE5 folder, but there was no such folder (or any, for that matter) in the Temp Internet files. Anyone have an idea where it's stored?
Think some folk have realised that the virus checker can't check for screensavers that contain viruses.
I keep getting the same e-mails of Gerbil Man with screensavers attatched. Have trashed them all and now blocked him.
Wouldn't open any attatchment on hotmail unless I was expecting one In an e-mail from someone I know.
Their virus checker is pretty crap after all.
I keep getting the same e-mails of Gerbil Man with screensavers attatched. Have trashed them all and now blocked him.
Wouldn't open any attatchment on hotmail unless I was expecting one In an e-mail from someone I know.
Their virus checker is pretty crap after all.
Yeah this is a common one going around at the moment, also emails with titles such as "Want to hack?" are to be warey of
Well, on my computer, when you go to the "Temporary Internet Files" folder from Windows Explorer, when you open it, it contains tons of cookies. However, if you look in the "Folders" toolbar, (if it's not already there go to View / Explorer Bar / Folders) you will hopefully see a box with a plus in it, next to the words "Temporary Internet Files". Click this and you will see the "Content.IE5" folder, which should hopefully also have a box with a plus in it. Click that and you should get a long list of folders, with really random names like "056nodur" and "K6kcinp2". They are all quite big (650kb - 2.3mb) and they tend to contain your viruses, if you have any. I often delete these folders because it doesn't seem to damage my computer doing so, but if you are worried, just search through them and delete it when you find it.
You could also go to Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Disk Clean-up. Clean-up Drive C, or whatever your hard disk is, and it will give you a list of what it can delete. Tick the box that's marked "Temporary Internet Files" and then click "Delete" or "Ok" or whatever.
As an afterthought, could you not just do Start / Find / Files or Folders /, type in the name of your virus, click "Find Now", then when it comes up on the list, just right-click it and then delete it?
You could also go to Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Disk Clean-up. Clean-up Drive C, or whatever your hard disk is, and it will give you a list of what it can delete. Tick the box that's marked "Temporary Internet Files" and then click "Delete" or "Ok" or whatever.
As an afterthought, could you not just do Start / Find / Files or Folders /, type in the name of your virus, click "Find Now", then when it comes up on the list, just right-click it and then delete it?
I keep getting screensavers from someone, I sent them an e-mail about it and they didn't have a clue who I was, and they hadn't sent the e-mails.
Hey. Same thing happened to me two days ago. It was pretty shocking when the McAfee virus checker didn't find it, so I'm still in love with my trustworthy Norton!
I remember the subject being something like: Wowwwww, check it. Not sure if they're all the same subject though.
I remember the subject being something like: Wowwwww, check it. Not sure if they're all the same subject though.
Got two yesterday both were 47k so I searched for the subject line on Google and realised it's a virus.
Why do people spend their time sending these things out? Pointless...
Why do people spend their time sending these things out? Pointless...
Primal wrote:
> Why do people spend their time sending these things out? Pointless...
My guess would be 'cos they've got nothing better to do with their lives... =)
> Why do people spend their time sending these things out? Pointless...
My guess would be 'cos they've got nothing better to do with their lives... =)
Isn't it Norton's Anti-Virus on Hotmail? possibly the best virus scanning software ever..(if kept updated)
I don't think it's possible to stop every single virus 24/7 but you only need 1 to mess up your system.
I don't think it's possible to stop every single virus 24/7 but you only need 1 to mess up your system.
No, it's that McAfee one.
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