US Report: Gamers Believe Activision's 'SiN' Carries CIH Virus
News A CRC (cyclic redundancy check - used to check integrity of a disk) check would be done on the inside of the file, but the virus appends itself to the ZIP wrapper, not the EXE," he said. Someone would have had to uncompress the files, infect them...
[July 28, 1998, 10:50]
Norton AntiVirus 2004 review
Reviews Default settings provide strong security by automatically deleting viruses and scanning compressed ZIP files, as well as stopping spyware and Trojans from infecting your PC. Previous versions of NAV detected viruses embedded in ZIP and other...
[September 29, 2003, 9:00]
Norton AntiVirus 2003 review
Reviews Unfortunately, unlike its major competitor, McAfee’s VirusScan, NAV 2003 scans ZIP files during the extraction process -- after you've downloaded them. We'd feel safer if NAV inspected ZIP files during the download.
[September 10, 2002, 7:25]
Bagle Worm Spawns Five Siblings
News This means that enterprises are unlikely to detect the virus at the perimeter because .zip files are not usually blocked and the encryption means that antivirus scanners will not be able to unzip the file: "This way they get through many gateway...
[March 1, 2004, 12:45]
100% Anti-virus Gaurantee - Fallacy !
Talkback Their excuse is that a) it is a zero day virus and b) you have to have your service configured to their exact specification i.e.don't allow through zip files. What company (especially a software one) seriously works without allowing through Zip...
[April 16, 2007, 14:27]
Worm Hits Corporate Networks Hard
News While first noticed in Israel on Sunday, the worm -- also known as TROJ_EXPLORE.ZIP and I-Worm.ZippedFiles -- struck hardest in the United States on Thursday, shutting down several major companies for hours and deleting critical files.
[June 14, 1999, 8:36]
F-Secure Warns Of Archive Protocol Danger
News The University of Oulu researchers discovered the vulnerabilities in various archive file formats, including ZIP, as part of their Protos Genome Project. F-Secure products affected include F-Secure Internet Security 2008, F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008...
[March 19, 2008, 13:07]
SystemSuite 4.0 review
Reviews SystemSuite uses a two-paned interface offering utility categories on the left -- Firewall, Antivirus, Optimize And Maintain, Diagnose, Fix, Recover, Uninstall, Cleanup, and Zip. Overall, SystemSuite 4.0's anti-virus and firewall utilities...
[November 12, 2001, 23:00]
Touchstone Goes After LapLink With FastMove! 2
News A key feature of the updated suite is ZIPSync, a tool for backing up, transferring and cataloguing files on Iomega Zip drives. A virus scanner is also integrated and the product integrates with sister package PC-cillin 95 so that the anti-virus...
[December 17, 1996, 14:21]
New Virus Creates Shockwaves
News Furthermore, the virus also changes the filenames of all JPG and ZIP files and then moves the files to the C:\ root directory. We've learnt from the Love Bug virus, [this virus] has the same capabilities, but we're able to contain it quicker," a...
[December 1, 2000, 8:41]
Babylonia Virus Loses Its Home Page
News This doesn't do the damage of a worm.explorer.zip, for example, but we're still worried," Symantec researcher Eric Chien said. It's the first that's able to infect Windows help files, according to Vince Gullotto, director of Network Associates...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
VirusScan 6.0 review
Reviews Our tests show that VirusScan identifies viruses in ZIP files before they hit the hard drive, which is something that Norton AntiVirus can't do. VirusScan's anti-virus software now comes bundled with a basic personal firewall to make your machine...
[January 15, 2002, 23:00]
The Truth About Viruses, Worms And Trojans
News AV software can also check files at the time they are copied onto a hard disk, arrive via mail or are downloaded from a website; optionally, they can also scan within archive file formats such as zip or even all file formats, regardless of type.
[October 16, 2002, 14:54]
'Clean Up This Internet Effluent Now'
News We've also seen social engineering being a factor as well, where virus writers are introducing a human element by putting malicious code in password-protected Zip-files and finding some route to encourage the user to then unlock the virus once it...
[May 7, 2004, 16:10]
New Virus From Same Source As Melissa?
News The Suppl.doc is both a trojan horse and a virus, with the potential to render useless files with the extensions, .doc, .xls, .txt, .rtf, .dbf, .zip, .arj and .rar on a victim's hard-drive by setting those document's file lengths to zero.
[September 22, 1999, 17:11]
