Viruses - Which program to trust

[mutt]

I’m presently running Norton AV 2002 with up to date definitions. I received 4 different emails today from unknown senders, each with an attachment.

Norton stopped none of these emails, but Zone Alarm stopped them. The attachments are as follows:

name=class.zl3 Subject: Japanese lass' sexy pictures
Subject: A powful tool
name=have.zlo Subject: TABINDEX
name=value.zl3 Subject: This.show.arguments)

Zone Alarm sets the .zl3/zlo extn, so I don’t know the original extn. Does anyone know what these are?

Cheers

Mutt.

[PPRuNeUser0171]

Things like this.show.arguments strike me as some sort of Java script directive probably to put you onto some sort of dodgy website

I've taken a look at the Virus data (http://www.sophos.com) which does not list any of them as a virus so I think you are quite safe!

Another suggestion I would make is to check out http://www.grisoft.com, A far more superior AV tool than Norton with more regualr updates and best of all it's free!!!

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Gary Williams.

[18-Wheeler]

I use www.nod32.com and find it excellent.

[mutt]

Interesting sites Gary, thanks.

Mutt.

[Slasher]

Mutt did you press your ZA "More info" button at the time? Thisll take you to the ZA web-site where a detailed explaination of the current alarm can be found. 9 times out of 10 it provides a satisfactory answer. If youve alowed logging, your ZA alert-log file should still have the details.

ZA is a firewall to protect against outside intrusion into your computer whereas NAV is a virus detector\hunter\killer. Id say your attachment contained a web-link of an intrusive nature that your trustey ZA intercepted as soon as the link activated.

[Feeton Terrafirma]

I've been using Nod32 for some time. It's not cheap, BUT I have found it will pick up a virus which Norton AV missed. This has happened twice now on customers PC's, so I think it's good value.