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FedEx email virus? not detected

leilani

today I received an email with a zipped file that pretends to be from FedEx.  I had prior knowledge of the "scam" and I'm pretty sure the attached zip is a virus; probably a "Windows OS" virus, but a virus.

Sophos for Mac did not detect any threats, I got no pop ups, nothing.  So I opened Sophos and had it scan the directory that the email is in.  It still did not find it.

Is there a procedure for sending in samples of "suspected" viruses??  (I realize that I need to delete the file and email, but was wondering if I could send it in so Sophos can add it to a database or something.)

thanks. 

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    Okay, I'm confused.  I did some testing.

    From Mail, I saved the attachment to the desktop and Sophos detected it and told me to manually remove it.  So after reading how to do that, I did get Sophos to delete it from the Desktop.

    BUT, and this is a BIG BUT, Sophos does not detect it when it is embedded in my email message when I scan my library folder on my hard drive.  SO, this zipped file could sit in my Library folder (in the Mail subfolder) forever and Sophos would never detect it??

    I created a new scan and even told it to scan inside Zipped files and Sophos did not detect it in the Library folder.  do I have to create a new Scan for each subfolder?  doesn't Sophos scan all the folders inside a folder??

    I don't want zipped viruses sitting on my hard drive forever, even if Sophos detects them if they ever try to unzip.

    What is the solution for this??  Any workaround to prevent this??

    Thanks.

    :1000695
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    Okay, I'm confused.  I did some testing.

    From Mail, I saved the attachment to the desktop and Sophos detected it and told me to manually remove it.  So after reading how to do that, I did get Sophos to delete it from the Desktop.

    BUT, and this is a BIG BUT, Sophos does not detect it when it is embedded in my email message when I scan my library folder on my hard drive.  SO, this zipped file could sit in my Library folder (in the Mail subfolder) forever and Sophos would never detect it??

    I created a new scan and even told it to scan inside Zipped files and Sophos did not detect it in the Library folder.  do I have to create a new Scan for each subfolder?  doesn't Sophos scan all the folders inside a folder??

    I don't want zipped viruses sitting on my hard drive forever, even if Sophos detects them if they ever try to unzip.

    What is the solution for this??  Any workaround to prevent this??

    Thanks.

    :1000695
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