Hotmail keeps saying my attachments have a virus.

[StageLeft]

So I thought, ok what's the chance of a jpg file having a virus? I ran the online mcafee (which is the same company MS uses) to detect for a virus on my comp. It found nothing. Dito for zone alarm, and pandasoftware. None of them found anything, so why does twatmail keep doing this?

 

[mechBgon]

So you compose an email, and you attach a photo of your kid, and Hotmail says the .JPG has a virus and rejects it? Am I on the right track there?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
So you compose an email, and you attach a photo of your kid, and Hotmail says the .JPG has a virus and rejects it? Am I on the right track there?

that's exactly it!

 

[mechBgon]

Huh 😕 Try emailing one using another provider, do you have gmail or anything? Send me one if you don't mind, so I can try a scan with a couple other tools here: t_m_c_f_a_d_d_e_n@omnicast.net (minus all the underscores).

What antivirus do you regularly use at home, what brand and version (eg McAfee VirusScan 8.0, Norton Antivirus 2004, Grisoft AVG Free Edition or whatnot)?

 

[StageLeft]

I tried gmail and it sends fine 🙂

I don't use antivirus at home. I'll send you one though (pic).

OK, sent with gmail! hotmail says it's a bad file.

 

[mechBgon]

I think Hotmail is on drugs 😛 What virus in particular does Hotmail claim to be finding, anyway?

It surprises me that you're not running any antivirus software after that run-in you had with the malware a while back. If you need something free, Grisoft AVG Free Edition is better than nothing.

 

[StageLeft]

It just says "virus"; nothing mentioned 🙁

Thx I may check that out, but with all the anti-spyware I've got for now, at least, I've been good in that department 😀

 

[SagaLore]

Perhaps it's detecting a potential GDI+ Exploit in your images. If you want, upload one of them to a server, PM me the url, and I'll use Sygate to detect the exploit. If nothing shows up then hotmail is on crack (or maybe withdrawing from crack?).