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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: shortwave on July 03, 2008, 07:49:29 PM
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Whilst running Spybot today it suddenly stopped and Avast! popped up to say it had found a virus (Trojan). This surprised me at first, but then I guessed that is monitoring other processes and intervened when Spybot tried to examine a file. I selected "Move to Virus Chest" and then it straight away found another one. I moved that as well. Spybot didn't want to continue, so I shut it down and then ran it again - no problems found. I then ran a thorough scan with Avast! and again nothing else found.
The two files were both in the C:\Documents & Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp folder and the only details are "Win32: Trojan-gen {Other}". Both are file size 60928. I have been downloading quite a lot of video clips and jpeg's lately, but I always put them in a dedicated folder and scan them first. I may have missed one though. I did recently get one of the pop-up's warning me I might be infected and asking me to download a "fix". As the various flashing boxes were rather contradictory I killed Firefox with Task Manager, rather than click the wrong one. There are no unusual processes running since this happened.
So my questions are: Does any of this make sense? Should I leave the files in the Chest for a few weeks and if no apparent problems delete them? Or should I forward them for further analysis?
Running XP2 Home, Avast! 4.8.1201, Spybot 1.5.2, & Adaware 2007.
Any advice would be most welcome.
Regards.
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Win32: Trojan-gen {Other} could be false positives.
Can you extract them from Chest to a safe folder and send to www.virustotal.com for analysis?
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I hope this is what you are looking for:
MD5: aaaf28a090437dfcda65a80bc013ef9e
First received: 06.23.2008 10:53:01 (CET)
Date: 06.25.2008 00:01:19 (CET) [>8D]
Results: 9/33
Permalink: analisis/ae5b8e6b1ff485f1aac71c724772d0d4
I did this which each of the two files, but the result was identical.
Regards.
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hi tech, i'm a newbie to the forums (been using avast for a year).
1) i've gotten the same "Win32: Trojan-gen {Other}" and came to the avast website to find more info about it, but there are only specific viruses under the virus menu. how do i know which one i have given "Win32: Trojan-gen {Other}" ?
2) i found this topic when searching the forums and read your reply to shortwave. could you please tell me what a safe folder is, and how to create one so i can upload to virustotal?
also, i hope i'm not encroaching on shortwave's post. should i have started my own post instead?
thanks for any help in advance :)
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The second post here gives the procedure I followed: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=36608.0
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Was the information I posted any use? Everything seems to be running fine at the moment.
Regards.