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    hammermaff's Avatar Poster
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    If your d/ling a movie & you want to check it's o.k. by using avi. preview.
    What if there happens to be a virus in the movie??? does this mean that it will infect your pc because you've opened the file??? .

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    Your AV software should be scanning all incoming traffic for viruses, if a movie has a virus in it it'll be pickup before it's finished downloading. But it's mainly software downloads that contain viruses which you can't open until they've completed.

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    @leech killer

    Thanks very much for the info

    Maff.

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    it is almost impossible for a movie to contain a virus.

    mp3 have been known to if you use cetain players due to buffer overflows but it is not really a problem.

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    hammermaff you should resize your sig

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