"Ant"  wrote in message 
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>"Buffalo" wrote:
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>> No anti-virus is perfect.
>> I am still a believer of Avast.
>
>It's obviously not suitable for checking newsgroup messages.
>And why would you do that anyway? You should be reading in whatever
>"safe mode" your newsreader provides. In other words read plain text
>only - don't render html messages or automatically display attachments
>(there aren't any here anyway). That way, there's no risk whatsoever.
>
>> Still curious on what it hit on.
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>Well, read the messages. It must have been the text of the html and
>script that was posted by Rafters and probably html snippets posted
>by others that showed a script source URL. No danger at all in plain
>text posts and even if they had been active in html posts and you
>were rendering them, your newsreader should not be fetching remote
>content from embedded links.
>
Avast didn't find anything in this ng until the virus defs were updated,the 
engine remained the same.
It was found during a complete scan done by Avast which I do every other day 
or so. Nothing was found in the previous scans.
Thanks for the info.
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Buffalo 

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