Hi everybody,

I had what I'm near postive was/is a genuine Sony file for reinstalling the VAIO Driver Recovery Wizard and my KAV5 today's scan prompted me of a WORM.Win32.Viking.k virus supposedly being in my backup copy's still zipped file.

False postive is what I'm thinking, but I replaced the zipped file with another backed up copy and re-scans fail to again report it as a virus.

Unless someone had access to my OS and opened the zipped file, placed a virus file in it and re-zipped the file (if even possible), this's the only explanation I can imagine as to how a 'genuine' virus could get into a zip file, no?

Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper

If you keep downloading the same zip file it is already infected. Just because it is from Sony does not mean that the zip file is virus-free. Try locating the file from a different source.

Did not say after i replaced file the virus was again detected. I said after replacing the file, no virus thereafter detected, but this implies the original file was infected when I know it was not (because I used a stored back up copy of the same file).

Point being, either false positive (caused by corruption, etc.) or somehow a virus actually got into a zipped folder (which is what I asked in my post, is it possible to inject a virus into a zipped file).

Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper