Robert’s Rants & Rationalizations

Here’s the text that was inserted into the e-mail from a service provider that was sending me several files which where zipped (compressed and bundled to make one file).

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Panda ClientShield warning:

The file **name_cut_out** Citizen Aware Opt-In Reference Tools V1.1.zip was potentially dangerous and was moved to quarantine.
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Umm, quarantine?  Where the hell is that?  It’s not on my computer…I searched.

You have to contact the network administrator to release it.  The next question?  Can you guess?  Try!

Was it ‘dangerous’?  I didn’t ask and it was never indicated that it was or it was cleaned, etc.  In the old days (only a decade ago), the anti-virus hardware (not software) that checked each e-mail and its attachments and would clean them or reject them.  The problem is, our IT staff are reactive, not as much as proactive, thus, questions are always there to be asked.

So, Panda ClientShield saw the attachment, based on rules set by the administrator, yanked the attachment and moved it to a pre-designated directory on the Panda server to sit with just a claim of illwill based on the rules of e-mail society set forth by its fore-fathers.  Was it infected or was it not?  Still the cloud of suspicion lingers to this day as it is the target of finger-pointers towards the accusation.

Should I send a virus to myself as an attachment and see what happens in that case?  First, I’ll backup my critical files…or, ‘ignorance is bliss’.

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