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MYDOOM?
I received an email purporting to be a mail delivery failure, containing a suspicious attachment. I had read a bulletin warning of MYDOOM, similar to the one posted on here and the email was of a type described in the bulletin, so of course I didn't open it.
However, my Norton anti-virus didn't pick it up. I went to the Symantec site and manually downloaded the latest definitions, still didn't pick it up. McAfee Stinger ditto.
Whether it was really MYDOOM or a trickster hoaxing mails to look like MYDOOM I don't know, but vigilence is key.
I have "Live Update" installed on Norton Antivirus, but discovered from reading the Norton site that virus definitions are only distributed by this means every Wednesday!!!! A week is a long time in publishing viruses!
David
Norton updtaes
In reality, Norton updates more often than weekly especially if a new threat comes along. Touch wood, I've only once had a virus beat a Norton update (Can't recall which one it was now but I recall all the anti virus checkers were caught because of the speed of propagation before they could develop a solution). I have known it to update 4 times in a week.
Anti Virus Software
Might I suggest that David and others in the same boat look at Panda anti-virus software. This is updated on line daily and, in the almost 2 years I have been using it, has proved 100% effective.