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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: RJ on October 29, 2004, 06:29:55 AM
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Small question, I just opened up an e-mail that has been on my computer for the past two months, avast popped up saying it was a virus "Win32:Trojan-gen. {UPX}". I don't believe it was a false reading as I am pretty certain the file that was attached to it was a virus. Deleted it. But my question is, that e-mail has been sitting in my Inbox for the past two months, how come Avast hasn't picked it up before? Are Email folders not scanned, durring an anti virus scan?
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Upgrade to 4.5.498 beta, it has a different way mail is handled and will solve this.
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Hi Eddy,
Yeah that's what I've got, did a scan and found nothing. Then when i was sorting through my e-mail, opened that one and was told it was a virus. Thought Avast would of picked it up over the past two months when scanning my computer
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What mail client do you use?
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Outlook express 6
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Strange, just some thoughts I have:
- it could be that a newer (newest?) vps was able to pick it up and the older one not.
- the email protection wasn't setup correctly
- the attachment was archived by a archiver Avast did not new at that time
- when doing a normal scan thorough wasn't selected or archive scanning was not enabled
- the mail files where in the exclusion list
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Hi Eddy,
I always scan doing a thorough scan and scan archive files.
The attachment was a rar file.
It was on my back up image, not happy about that, now reinstalling my computer and giving myself a clean back up image, haha, I'm fussy.
Very weird though.
Don't I have to add the mail files to the exclusion list or is that setting automatic? I never change the settings from what it installed as.
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You got me puzzled. There is porbably a logical explanation for it, but from what you told me, I can't see it :'(
Anyway, as they say end well, all well ;D