uunfortunately something in Wb's sets off some virus scanners.. Ive had them rejected from both Yahoo and Hotmail and labeled as viruses.

not sure if its anything to do with your issue..

..frustrating.

Im sure someone can elighten us though.

In all the years I've downloaded tons of skins from WC - I've never once has a virus in any of them...Im not saying its not possible but sometimes you get false positives from antivirus ....did you email a moderator with name of skin so they can check ?

Actually, it was a skin I got off of Deviantart, which was also an entry in the GUI Olympics. I have tried to search for the skin on Deviantart again and can't find it, although it is still listed on the GUI Olympics site.

I've got several WBs from Deviantart. If you can provide the name perhaps I can help.All those I've downloaded are scanned first before installing, just in case.

I've heard about that. I think it was just a desktop.ini file and it's a false positive. It's no virus.

What explains Yahoo and Hotmail freaking out over WB files then?

Neither one supports them supposedly. They're very sensitive to certain file types and false positives are the norm. I've experienced a few...no big deal.

Unless someone added an executable into the skin file then there is no way a skin file contains a virus.

To help track this down, please provide:

1.  Name of Skin (and download link)
2.  Name of the Virus your scanner is detecting
3.  What AntiVirus software you're using.

Hotmail freaks out over a Rainlendar Zip. I remember last year mailing someone a Rainy zip and she said it couldnt be opened because hotmail said it was a virus. So I sent her the Rainy on 12 different emails piece by piece and told her to put it all in a folder and there was no problem sending it that way. Hotmail is weird at times - or its the settings that you choose - im not sure , I dont use hotmail and Ive never had trouble with yahoo mail not accepting big files.

I seem to recall one of JJYing's entries in the GUI Champs flagging as containing a virus. I ran checks with AVG and an online scanner at the time and turned up nothing. JJYing is a great artist, and would never intentionally include a virus in his work.

Perhaps it was that blind that set off your AV alert.

There is no cause for concern, the blind is safe to keep & use [if that was the one].

The Windowblind skin was FROIS-01 and the anti-virus software is CA, I don't have the name of the virus, it was a couple of weeks ago and I tried to look at the scan log but it has been scanned again since then. Also, I thought that I had downloaded it from Deviantart, but I can't find it there. It must have been from the GUI Olympics site WWW Link

i have scan the file with AVG and nothing there are no virus for AVG 7.5

I thought it was pretty weird...Also could have sworn I downloaded from DA.

i wouldn't worry, i have downloaded a few skins and got false positives at times

i think it's the way some of the files are set up, if in doubt, never download the skins directly into window blinds, always download then and save the file then scan them, before importing them into windowblinds. window blinds is one of the best programs i have ever come across and i am sure the makers would be onto the ass of anyone trying to send viruses through this particular program