[Bonnieclark]

Hi!
I have an account with Verizon Yahoo mail. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if Yahoo checks email attachments for malware? I'm hoping I'm safe, no matter what dumb stuff I do there... Thanks.

[stantley]

They use Norton to scan for viruses http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mai.../abuse-06.html

It's still a good idea to be careful opening attachments and clicking on links from an unknown sender.

[Rich-M]

While they do scan they don't use good products and you have to remember certain forms of malware can get through anyway such as a work which is coiled asleep until it gets into your system so online checks will never suffice as you have no protection for what makes it through.

[chiliwormeater45]

Yahoo mail uses Norton Antivirus to scan all attachments before you are allowed to download them.

Even though yahoo scans the files, no antivirus is perfect, and I would run another anti-virus on the same file before you open the file.

If two anti-viruses say the file is clean, then it most likely is. Also to be more safe, don't open attachments, or links from unknown senders.

[Bonnieclark]

Thanks for all of your replies!

[lunarlander]

Actually you should re-scan EVERYTHING from EVERYBODY. Your PC may be secure but your friends' may not, and malware can use their account to send out more malware.

[chiliwormeater45]

Well yeah I guess you should, depends on the file. If it's a picture file, I don't think you need to. As long as you have Windows set to show file extensions on known file types. If it's something like picture.jpg.vbs or picture.jpg.exe then it's more than likely a virus but I don't think picture files can be viruses.

But yeah you should scan, everything that you get from everyone. I don't usually, if I know, that my friends are sending it. It's a poor choice on my part but that's a choice I'm making.