I am very impressed having never heard or used this scanner before.  It has
a really nice GUI, and I have to admit that It scared the pure living hell
out of me when it found 239 infected files that turned out to be sent emails
WITHIN Outlook Express of eicar that I have sent people over the years and
it even found several MS-Word docs that I had it in as well.  Trend Micro
never once looked there or found these.  GOing to run a few more tests,  HEY
it found my freaking TAPE DRIVE!!! Trend would never see or find my tape
drive even though its bright as day in explorer.

Thanks for the mention of Panda, I got a lot of testing to do, so far I have
not been able to fool this thing.


"Michael D. Ober" <obermd-@-alum-mit-edu-nospam> wrote in message
news:nUaTa.5$kf.15709@news.uswest.net...
I agree with Chuck, you probably have a virus.  Norton and McAfee appear to
have both missed the latest viral attack method, virus's hidden in zip
files.  I know Panda Anti-Virus (www.pandasoftware.com) has been catching
these virus's.  Having no experience with TrendMicro, I don't know if
TrendMicro will catch these as well.

After you run a good virus scanner (not Norton or McAfee), run a chkdsk /r
(Win 2000/XP), chkdsk /F (NT4), or ScanDisk (Win95/98/ME) on your problem
system to clean up the drive's structure.

Mike Ober.

(My antipathy towards Norton is based on experience with Norton bogging down
systems.  My antipathy towards McAfee is a result of having to spend a week
cleaning up our corporate network after a virus infected it when _ALL_ the
workstations and servers were up to date on McAfee's AV sig files and AV
engine.  Panda started catching Sobig/B the day it came out, updates their
sig files daily instead of weekly, and I haven't had a virus hit in three
years.)