Secure game downloading?

My wife likes to play free trial games from bigfish.com. We log on our computer as users rather than administrator. My wife said that when she would download games before, she would be prompted for the admin password to download. Now it requires that she log on as administrator to download the game, which she does. Then she switches to user to play them. Most of that sounds ok.

  However on MacAfee’s site advisor I checked out bigfishgames.com  It showed ok according to McAfee, but user comments seemed to indicate some downloads contained Trojans. I don’t know if this is true or just users getting infected elsewhere and blaming bigfish.com

I have come to understand that Norton products have the multi layer level of protection, but this scenario raises a few questions for me ( I use NAV2008 on Vista Home premium OS with Vista service pack 1)

 1. If a virus or malware was contained in a game download, would Norton NAV stop it at point of contact (if it were in the currents definitions) even if my wife gave to OK to download?2. Would it send it to quarantine?3. If there were no virus/malware attached, would there be a message pop up indicating so? Or is it a no harm, no foul, no need for a message? I have run quick and full scans since the last download of games and nothing has come up in the scans, other than tracking cookies

 

here is the info on the "virus"

Two generic.dx trojans detected by VirusScan Enterprise [Engine 5300.2777; DAT 5472.0000] this morning: qklsghb.exe (822KB) & MCF Huntsville Training.exe (9MB). Beware of downloading Huntsville Mystery Case Files from this site.

Message Edited by NY1986 on 02-02-2009 03:33 PM