If it's a virus, you MIGHT be able to find out by a suggestion proposed on
PcSoft. Then again, we might make a mistake. Even with our collective
intelligence and experience, we certainly don't know everything.
Same with the other sites that you suggested.
Your best bet is as follows:
You don't know who sent you the message? Then I doubt that it is all that
important.
Dump it.
Can't bear the possibility of dumping it?
Carefully move it to a diskette (but be sure you don't double-click on it
while moving it!).
Open it in a computer that you don't care much about (and that won't be the
computer you are using to read this message, right?). Perhaps you or a
friend have an old 586 that needs reformatting anyway.
Even better - let the diskette sit around for a while. Either you'll lose
interest, or something will turn up on one of the Virus websites. Even then,
my suggestion is to open it in a computer that you don't care about.
David Grossman
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Guise <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] How to Discover if an Attachment is a Virus Without
Opening It?
> At 12:34 6/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > Today I received an email message with the subject !"#$ (obviously
> >spam) but no message, just an attachment named pbrush.zl9. I would like
to
> >know if the attachment is a virus or some other evil
>
>
> The extension "zl9" is usually associated with Zone Alarm. This attachment
> has been found suspect by ZA and subsequently quarantined. I would
> defiitely delete without opening. In the past I've overridden ZA's
warnings
> on attachments twice and been infected from those files.
> Make sure your antivirus program is updated and check that it is set up to
> scan attachments
>
> Marc
>
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