Is That REALLY a Virus?
Many of you have probably encountered a situation where your antivirus software, against your better judgment, thought this file or that download was some sort of nasty infection. This tends to happen to me frequently with certain kinds of Windows utilities.
The reality however is that there really are lots, and lots, and lots of actual threats out there so any warning from your antivirus program should at very least make you step back and reassess what it is you're downloading or executing.
Mary Landesman, the About.com Guide to Antivirus Software, has a great piece on this that I'm sure you'll find helpful:
Six Easy Ways to Tell if a Virus Really is a Virus
Is That REALLY a Virus? originally appeared on About.com Focus on PC Support on Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at 06:30:55.
