1003609_realtek_5_10_0_5850.exe and hpWLPGInstaller1032.cab.....these driver files I believe to have been on my system as copies of drivers from another laptop since way back (cant be sure on the first though as I think Avast moving it to the virus chest, and my restoring it has changed the timestamps the later timestamps created/modified dates are appropriate age). The laptop is still in use. So i don't want to lose the driver copies unless absolutely the only choice. So my guess is that these are both FP's, but previous scans by avast since installing it a few days ago never never found these problems.
However is it possible that a virus could have been injected into a random file in this mannor? - seems unlikely surely that would mean it had been activated, if it could inject into one why not not 10000 files?
Is there anyway to check the validity of Avasts identified Threats on large files?. This file is to big for Jotti or Virustotal.
This is more a question in the context of ongoing practicality of using Avast than about dealing with this specific problem (i.e I am pretty sure I have the original files somewhere in this case).
My concern is that I don't have the time to spend all day, every other day, on verifying possible FP's especially when this has not been the only problem with avast - many file scans returned errors "Archive password protected (2056)" and "Reached the end of the file (38)" but those for a separate thread maybe.
I come from Avira antivir after their disastrous decision to bully users of free version into using the ask toolbar. Otherwise to be honest I would not have migrated this was a great tool without FP issues or files that could not be scanned.
ON XP SP3
