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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: DragoonKiller on December 04, 2009, 05:38:43 AM
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First of all, srry if I miss some words, I'm from Brazil and it's about 72 hours I don't see a bed to take a nap.
Well Hello, my name is Fernando and I wanted to make a question about the log file of the scans that are made on the boot. The reason is:
The Trojan win32:delf... well, I tough that it was really a fresh wave of a virus that popped out from the web, than I made Avast scan, find and delete all infected files that it could find in the boot scan... the big and great problem (that I reallyzed during the boot scan) is that it was not a virus or trojan file, but instead a false positive... but it was too late and I lost a lot of .DLL files from the C:\windowns...
I want tho know how to find the log file and see the exactly files that were deleted, if it's possible of course... and if it's not possible, what can I do to "scan" my computer to see what's missing inside the windows files?
I don't know if I said all right, srry about my bad english.
Hope to get some help, and already greatfull for the attention.
Hugs.
Fernando R.T
PS: I'm really good reading, but writhing is not my best.
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Look in the C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\report\aswBoot.txt file, check this file using notepad, this is where the results of a boot-time scan are recorded.
Deletion isn't really a good first option (you have none left), 'first do no harm' don't delete, send virus to the chest and investigate. Then it is possible to recover from a false positive detection as you still have the file.
There is no rush to delete anything from the chest, a protected area where it can do no harm. Anything that you send to the chest you should leave there for a few weeks. If after that time you have suffered no adverse effects from moving these to the chest, scan them again (inside the chest) and if they are still detected as viruses, delete them.