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Virus Detected! (Self Inflicted)

cormie · 2006-03-26 19:45:02

Ok, I'm not at all worried but I thought I'd see what the story is with this. I copied a selection in ms paint and pasted it as a "scrap" file, I wanted this scrap to be a bitmap image itself and it didn't have the bmp icon so I renamed it .bmp and then AVG popped up this message: "Virus detected while opening file:…

26-03-2006 7:45pm

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cormie

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Ok,
I'm not at all worried but I thought I'd see what the story is with this.

I copied a selection in ms paint and pasted it as a "scrap" file, I wanted this scrap to be a bitmap image itself and it didn't have the bmp icon so I renamed it .bmp and then AVG popped up this message:

"Virus detected while opening file: filename.bmp.shs Warning: Hidden extension .shs"

anything to worry about?

Also, how can I save scraps as proper bmps?

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#2 26-03-2006 7:46pm

Karoma

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You just didn't save it correctly.
"Hidden" extension was a common technique used to infect users a few years back.

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#3 26-03-2006 7:47pm

aidan_walsh

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Most likely a false positive.

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#4 26-03-2006 7:47pm

MaxBax

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open the scrap file and save as bitmap.

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#5 26-03-2006 7:48pm

kaimera

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From the tools menu > folder options > view tab

Uncheck the box "hide file extensions"

now just rename the file to blah.bmp, removing the .shs extension.

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#6 26-03-2006 8:30pm

cormie

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cool thanks:)

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