This post is going to be an easy read because I don't have any time to update the blog at the moment - so just look at the pictures. Most people who've spent any time with me on the computer know that I hate anti-virus products because I think that they spend too much time slowing down the system without any guarantee of actually fixing the problem. Here's an example which just happened about five minutes ago. I received an email containing an obviously bad file. It passed neatly through our external scanning system which consists of SEVERAL different anti-virus and anti-spam filters. I knew it would be a virus, so I saved it to my hard drive. You can see that it has a Microsoft Word icon but that it ends in .EXE. If you accept the windows default to hide extensions for known file types, you'll never see the EXE and you might even be fooled into thinking that _doc is the same as .doc. So... I right clicked on the file and chose scan from the context menu. As mentioned ...