BT Yahoo Virus Scan Not Absolute

Private and small firm users of the BT Internet services will have been getting used to the recent tie-in with Yahoo! Some of the facilities are good, particularly the webmail features and the Spam filtering, but in our experience the virus guards are not completely thorough.

Even though BT Yahoo is using virus detection software from Symantec, and many viruses are detected prior to delivery, we still receive a few virus messages every day that are only detected by Symantec's own product installed directly on our machines.

The key point therefore is don't stop paying for detection software on your own machine - it would be a false economy.