Thanks, Tom...and I suspect that is exactly what Norton did in this case...got rid of the virus as soon as the files were unzipped. Joan In a message dated 1/31/2013 6:51:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tomp@st.net.au writes: Quite correct Joan, but see the following which I found "AVG FREE Anti-virus 2011 or 2012 are just fine. You do not have a vulnerability with AVG since it will scan any file BEFORE ANY program on your computer can load or read it. What you are over looking is that zip files are compressed. Because they are compressed it is impossible for any anti-virus program to detect virus's contained in them since the data in the files are UN-intelligible. By un-zipping a zip file, all of the files contained in it will be extracted and decompressed and written to disk as individual files. Only then can an a-v program scan them for virus's. The un-zip process itself is not in any danger from any virus's that might be contained in the zip file. By design, AVG a-v FREE always scans files at the time that any program does the open function, before the program itself actually reads the file. That is how all real-time anti-virus programs work. So you are perfectly safe already." Tom

On 1/31/2013 6:08 PM, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > Thanks, Tom...and I suspect that is exactly what Norton did in this > case...got rid of the virus as soon as the files were unzipped. > > Joan Joan: That seems pretty clear. Any antivirus program worth using would do the same, *provided* that the included virus is not so new that the program has not yet been updated to handle it. Normally, that situation is a very rare occurrence. To be bitten by it would be simple bad luck. But what reward is there for taking the risk? It is like betting $100 on something, knowing that you will win 999 times out of 1,000; but if you win, you only get your $100 back. Listowners need to understand that by virtue of their accepting the position, they will be exposed to certain *potential* dangers. Simple caution, such as NEVER opening a file attached to a message sent to the -admin address, is enough to make those dangers all but disappear. Darrell