How Can I Download An Attachment File Detected As "Infected" By Yahoo's Norton
By magtibaygom
@magtibaygom (4858)
Philippines
December 16, 2010 6:00pm CST
I want to change my anti-virus from Symantec Endpoint Protection to ESET Smart Security. Then a trusted friend sent me a file through email (Yahoo Mail), TNod-1.4.0.15-setup.rar (726KB), for continuous update of serials of ESET.
The problem is, before downloading to my PC, Yahoo Mail's Norton scanned the attachment file first, I cannot download now the file because they said:
[i]
"Virus detected. The attachment you are trying to download contains a virus and it can not be cleaned". [/i]
In my understanding, these anti-virus programs sometimes treat the files of their competitor anti-virus program as "viruses" even though they are not.
Now, my challenge is, how can I download that attachment file to my PC if Yahoo Mail does not want it to be downloaded to me because of their Norton? Can you help me please?
1 response
@livre1 (34)
• Brazil
17 Dec 10
You can ask your friend to put in the password file so the anti virus scan usually will not get the file, you can also password files you send via email, plus remember that if you are trying to download an illegal file, you should not doing this is the file can be a same malware infecting your computer is to finish so be careful not to do wrong is to repent later. The easiest way is to encrypt the file, and your friend sends the password by email so you can open the file with anti virus it usually will not detect anything else can be a security risk to do this.
