G'day all -
Hope I'm in the right place!
This morning, about 09:30 West Australian time, I checked my emails, and received a zip file.
The short story is that avast! totally didn't pick it up, even when I explicitly scanned it. BTW, v5.1.889, 'cos I use W2K. So I used the online scanner. Nothing. Clean.
I thought, maybe it's brand new, and Sunday's update won't catch it. Downloaded yesterday's definitions -- we won't see today's until late this arvo -- but again, nothing.
I wasn't satisfied -- there's an exe in the zip, and I didn't request the exe -- so went to Kaspersky. "UPS_Document.exe - infected by Trojan.Win32.Inject.bdka"
Now I'm not a whinger, especially since the product is a) free, and b) supports W2K, but OTOH if I totally relied on the virus-killer like so many people do, and simple minded enough (or use Outlook Express) to open an important-looking attachment, then my whole month is ruined trying to undo the damage.
I have submitted it to the avast! virus lab while downloading yesterday's update, so they now have no excuse.
But I've just lost confidence in the product. How do I know it's catching all the stuff which sneaks into the off-springs' machines on this LAN?
I'm no longer happy.
Gordon.
