web graphics firing off anti-virus software

[Paul H. Gray]

At 08:22 AM 5/1/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>. . .every once in a 
>while is that Norton jumps up thinking that a graphic being downloaded 
>from a web page by Netscape contains a virus.  Does anybody else have 
>this problem with Norton or any other anti-virus software? . . .

Not directly the same problem since we don't yet use Norton's Web Shield.
BUT 
When we run Norton's VirusScan and it hits Netscape's Disk cache it does
--frequently-- give us interesting warnings that certain graphics files ".
. . may not be executable.""  Which of course they are not ---
Why on some and not others haven't figured out yet.

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