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I don't know the technicalities behind it but an anti-virus scanner would find a virus in any file on your computer so I don't think a .zip file attachment would be any different.

The best and safest thing to do is just to delete anything that is obviously junk... the only .zip files you should trust are the ones you were expecting to receive off a friend etc.

It's best to not let curiosity get the better of you because even if you can open something without being infected by a virus it probably wasn't worth the risk in the first place... some bit of daft junk.

lilpink x

That was good advise. I'm so geeky I have to have the little window that pops up that says it's checking each email for viruses before it sends them. It just makes me feel all warm inside.

If you want to check out how your virus scanner responds to different virus packages, go to this link



download any of the files and see how your virus scanner responds. The eicar file is a virus test file, it isn't a virus.

If you can download all four of them without any virus messages, you've got a very serious problem

I know Norton use to allow the eicar.zip to get through, but it would spot it when It was unzipped.