Question regarding these zlq virus files

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Moe Hair

Those posters who keep posting the Britney Spears nude files in zlq format is
most probably a virus.

If one is using X-news which decodes attached files automatically, is it
possible to get the virus even if you don't save the file to disk?
 
*zlq* is your Zone Alarm at work......Mailsafe in it changes the extensions
to "Z" ones.......
 
Heather wrote:
| *zlq* is your Zone Alarm at work......Mailsafe in it changes the
| extensions to "Z" ones.......
|
| || Those posters who keep posting the Britney Spears nude files in zlq
|| format is most probably a virus.
||
|| If one is using X-news which decodes attached files automatically,
|| is it possible to get the virus even if you don't save the file to
|| disk?

Hi,
Actually Zone Alarm .zlq is a nenamed .scr extension.
 
Moe Hair said:
Those posters who keep posting the Britney Spears nude files in zlq format is
most probably a virus.
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More probably a trojan (pretending to be a screensaver) which
compromises your security in some way if executed. The zlq
extension is probably ZoneAlarm's "Mailsafe" renaming of .scr
extensioned program files.
If one is using X-news which decodes attached files automatically, is it
possible to get the virus even if you don't save the file to disk?
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Not likely, it would have to be executed, not just decoded.

However, if X-news decodes it - isn't it then a file saved on disk?
I would think that it would have to be for ZoneAlarm to change
the extension. Content has no extension - only filenames have
those.
 
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