scanning received jpgs in email - does norton stop trojans? 1

[Aishaa]

I need to figure out the proper way to do this scanning - I have been advised to receive jpg type files in hotmail account only because they can contain trojans and that norton antivirus won't stop trojans.

I am unfamiliar with trojans or the various other bugs out there.

But anyways so I got a yahoo account and when I receive a jpg in there it looks already open to me, yet says that I can scan it with norton - - - has anyone got any knowledge of yahoo email and how this norton works there?

Ty Aishaa

 

[KeyTech]

I use Yahoo a lot, mainly for emails when I am out of the office or what ever. I find it fairly reliable.
It uses Notron to scan the emails alright, and you dont have to do anything. It will do it itself. What happens is that when the mail is received in your Yahoo a/c, and you go to open it, and you see the jpg on the screen, what you are seeing is an image of your image so to speak. The pic that you are looking at is saved to your temporary internet files, and is not the actual file that was sent to you...so if there was a virus in your attachment it wont be transfered to your PC.....

The only way the virus get onto your PC and do what it does is if you actually open the attachment when it is downloaded to your PC....

hmmm...hope I explained this right for you!! Jay~

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[Aishaa]

Ok - what I don't understand is that some of the jpgs are already open/visible - but there is still "scan with norton antivirus" right beside it - does that mean that it opened itself up by mistake? Or maybe that it has detected for sure that there is no virus/trojan?

Then the other thing that is confusing me is that I have some jpg's in there that aren't open.
For these I have clicked "scan with norton antivirus". Then it gives me the option of downloading the jpg/attachment to my computer. - - - - - However it does give the following warning: "This virus scanner may not be able to detect or repair all viruses and variants."

So I don't understand first of all why some of the jpgs are visible, and others are sitting there appearing as paperclips only and I would still have to open and download them to my computer.

Do you know whether the norton scanner on Yahoo is as good as for example the newest version of norton commonly installed on peoples' computers?

Ty
Aishaa

 

[KeyTech]

OK...I think I can answer that......when you open a mail with an attachment, you see the image that is attached. BUT, what you are seing is only a thumbnail version of the image created by Yahoo, and can do no damage. You then have the option to scan it before you download it.
The attachment can only do damage to your pc when you download and then open it.
Yahoo provide this service only as a FREE service, and the fact that they can't find every virus or trojan, is acceptabe due to that fact.
The programs that users have installed on their machines are obviously well more protective, as they had to be bought. Even still, new viruses come out all the time and the virus scanner software (eg Norton or McAfee VirusScan) have to release what are called .dat files, which are available to download and install for free. These dat files contain new information about new viruses that are created so that the user can have an up-to-date virus scanner.
Yahoo may not always have the latest dat files, but you can't complain really as it is free!!! Jay~

My new Tae Kwon Do website is up and running!!

http://www.airport-tkd.com

~KeyTech