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Title: Hope someone can explan this to me
Post by: e_a_g_l_e_p_i on July 23, 2008, 02:58:43 PM
Everytime I download anything  I always run the Avast scan on the rar file and then after unraring it I run the scan on the folder and a few times I have run my trojan scanner and there was a Avast trojan warning that pops up on a program that I scanned twice with Avast both in rar and folder before installing it.

 ???
Title: Re: Hope someone can explan this to me
Post by: Lisandro on July 23, 2008, 03:37:58 PM
Do you mean that scanning the unpacked files detect a virus and scanning the rar archive does not?
Can you submit it to  VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com/xhtml/index_en.html) and let us know the result?
Title: Re: Hope someone can explan this to me
Post by: DavidR on July 23, 2008, 03:42:20 PM
What is your trojan scanner ?

More importantly, what is the malware name, the infected file name, where was it found e.g. (malware name, C:\windows\system32\infected-file-name.xxx) ?  
Check the avast! Log Viewer (right click the avast 'a' icon), Warning section, this contains information on all avast detections.

It may be that your trojan scanner unpacks its signatures to scan and these are detected, this is speculation on my part as i don't know what scanner you used or the file name of the detected file (above questions).
Title: Re: Hope someone can explan this to me
Post by: e_a_g_l_e_p_i on July 23, 2008, 03:49:57 PM
I just deleted them so next time ( if 0 it happens I'll do everything you both suggested.

Thanks
Title: Re: Hope someone can explan this to me
Post by: Lisandro on July 23, 2008, 03:58:39 PM
Quote from: e_a_g_l_e_p_i on July 23, 2008, 03:49:57 PM
I just deleted them so next time ( if 0 it happens I'll do everything you both suggested.

Thanks
You're welcome. Feel free to come back any time you need help or just to change experiences 8)
Title: Re: Hope someone can explan this to me
Post by: DavidR on July 23, 2008, 05:17:47 PM
Quote from: e_a_g_l_e_p_i on July 23, 2008, 03:49:57 PM
I just deleted them so next time ( if 0 it happens I'll do everything you both suggested.
Thanks

You're welcome.