Detected my first email virus today.
Received some mail through my yahoo account from someone I regularly correspond with. The subject line was the first tipoff, reading "case something comes," which made no sense to me. The text of the message appeared to be part of an unfinished paragraph that my friend would have written, since it referenced acting and my friend is an acting coach, but it generally made little sense. Finally, there was a 55k attachment called FASTBOOT.EXE attached.
Yahoo has a feature that allows you to scan attachments with Norton Antivirus before opening, so I ran the scan..........and got this:
Scan Result
Name of File: FASTBOOT.EXE
Type of File: application/octet-stream
Scan Result: No Virus Threat Detected
Because I'm not too smart, and relying on Norton, I clicked on the "Download Attachment," but as per my custom, selected the "Open" option rather than the "save to file" option.
At that point, an anti-virus application that I am testing, the name of which escapes me but not one of the major brands(I'm at a different location now so I can't check) kicked in and told me that the file was infected with MS32.Magistr
I looked it up: fireav.com
I'm a little concerned that Norton didn't pick it up. Any thoughts? |
