Originally posted by: TygGer
Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
Ok, I'm going to digress a little... Can an virus come in the form of an notepad/regular text document?
No
Can you give me examples of file types that viruses can come in?
.pif, .exe, .com, .bat, .scr
a .zip can't technically have the virus, but it's currently (w32.beagle, among others) being used to house the executable file that carries the virus.
And *ALWAYS* look all the way to the end of the filename. There are several that are going around that are a somefilename.doc.pif All that you see is the .doc, so it's a Word documents -- WRONG. It's a PIF, which is executable. (those of us old enough to remember Win 3.1 remember those...)
There are also files that don't have to originate within your computer! NIMDA is a port-seeker that searches the net for open ports then attaches to your computer that way... That one would come in under your av protection because it was never "executed"...