Originally Posted by
zot
With all the viruses-in-disguise being posted these days, its a good idea to look on NZB indexers first like *FilesharingTalk* for verified files -- especially applications. (Save the search engines for the rare stuff.)
Also, don't trust your antivirus to keep you safe. I've uploaded a lot of these newsgroup .exe's onto VirusTotal, and this proved to me that many popular antivirus applications will completely miss a lot of these dangerous trojans being spammed on Usenet by the thousands.
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