Right as I was about to step out the door to go get some food, my Norton Anti-Virus Alert thing popped up onto my screen and told me I had a virus in my C-drive, in the folder where I do my (yes I know it’s “illegal”) file-sharing. I opened the program and attempted to manually delete the file; a prompt then appeared and said I could not delete the file because it’s a “.dat” file. I have no idea what a .dat file is or what purpose it serves, but nonetheless, this one apparently contains a virus that Norton cannot fix. So far nothing has happened to make me think it’s dangerous, but I know very little about how viruses operate.
Anyway, does anyone have a suggestion about what to do? Do I have to uninstall my file-sharing service and then re-install it again? Is there a better anti-virus program than Norton? (my inclination would be that there is always something better.) I’m almost ready to panic … help anyone?
If it’s an infected .dat file in your shared directory, it’s probably a file that isn’t downloaded all the way yet. That’s how Kazaa saves your files while they’re downloading, so that they can be resumed later, if you lose your connection. You should be able to delete the .dat file someway (if it’s in your shared directory, I wouldn’t worry about it), and hopefully that will fix your problem. Kazaa has a setting in it to filter out file types that may potentially contain viruses, I suggest you make sure that setting is turned on in the program.
Oh, and update your antivirus software’s virus definitions. Geez, I’m bossy tonight! Good luck!
Geez, I’m bossy tonight! Good luck!