Onlineracin.com is in the process of switching servers and I went to
their site and checked for an update. When I accessed their site, a
virus attempted to infect my system. (Thank goodness for Norton)
BEWARE!
Kerry
RACERX88
er.. are you talking about downloading a readme.txt file?
I hit the same virus alert today (different AV software), and promptly
disabled the virus scanning and executed the file.
The reason for the alert was that the file was named readme.txt.exe - a
double extention. The .exe was added when the file was made a
self-extracting archive. my AV scanner was acting in heuristic mode, where
it will automatically block a double extention file as a potential virus,
regardless of content.
The reason is that some older operating systems won't display a double
extention, so all you see is readme.txt, when the file is actually an
executabe.
Regards,
Tim
"Kerry Grant" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Onlineracin.com is in the process of switching servers and I went to > their site and checked for an update. When I accessed their site, a > virus attempted to infect my system. (Thank goodness for Norton) > BEWARE! > > Kerry > RACERX88It looked like one of the sister KLEZ extensions. I just went to their site
and it is ok now.
Kerry
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