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Had this post show up in one of my forums from a member. Not sure what to think of it. Any ideas?

Mike

Here is a link to the thread on my site. some of the natives are nervous.
http://www.bowltech.com/content/btu...&Number=231471&page=0#Post231471



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At the moment. I'm getting a virus warning, when I load the bowltech page. This onyl started today. I've done Full AVG Scan, Avg Anti-spyware scan and Spybot search and destroy. and Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE. Nothing has come up

The Virus is appearing in the Temp internet files,

Here is a screen shot

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=5664456

Is anyone else having problems, or am I unlucky?

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A lot of these virus scanners detect threats based on several things; some of them are as anal as to detect by filesize and type...

so if you have a file that's say 23k with the extension ".js" and a similar name to something in its bank, it'll flag it as a virus.

They can detect by "signature" which will check mainly filesize, name, extensions, etc; I highly doubt your site has a "trojan" in a javascript file... You should however open the file in notepad and see if, by any chance, there is anything "not kosher" with the file; though again, i highly doubt there is anything wrong here other than an anal retentive virus scanner.

Well I just visited the page displayed on his screenshot and didn't have any problems.

I'm using McAfee SecurityCenter with a bought license. As you know, AVG is freeware and is a very poor antivirus alternative. It probably overcompensates by flagging up trivial things as Gizmo highlighted.

I tried from IE and initially got

http://www.bowltech.com/content/btu...&Number=231471&page=0#Post231471
is not available at this time.

Entered it again and the page came up.

No issues with FF and no warnings from Norton's with either browser

Bit Defender - No Warnings

Oh yeh, I'm using Norton Corporate Antivirus v7.6; so if anyone's should be anal it'd be mine :x

I'm using McAfee and IE - no warnings. And McAfee is VERY picky.

I don't run Antivirus so no warning for me either

fool.... LOL

No virus in over a year of being without. System runs much faster without it.

Got spyware a couple times from Russian sites, but a quick restore of system state and a reboot and it's back to normal as though nothing ever happened.
Piece of cake.

Living dangerously

Not really. No automated e-mail application to spam with WSH, all data is on another drive (that gets backed up) The OS has a Ghost image so what is living dangerous?

Even if I did get one, nothing a quick re-Ghost won't fix, or a restore of files on external drive.

Been running this way for over a year and unless something completely new comes along to thwart my normal day to day operation I don't see me using it any time soon.

One time I spent 3 days downloading spyware, junk on purpose till the system had troulbe even booting. Re-Ghost (less than 5 minutes), hook up external drive - back in business in under 10 minutes.
Now days I use a virtual machine though for that type of testing, as there are tweaks that I have to re-apply etc (should quit being lazy and back those up too or script them.)