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Title: AIS won't delete a virus after 3 tries.It says rootkit sfloppy.sys .Anyone know?
Post by: friendlee_71 on December 07, 2011, 01:39:18 AM

Hello everyone, I have Avast Internet Security Suite & it is showing: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\sfloppy.sys as a virus-a rootkit system modification.I have tried to get it to delete it and reboot my system,WINDOWS XP HOME, 3 times but it keeps popping back up.Does anyone know about this? Should I just leave it alone or is it a serious problem in the long run? Any suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated. :-\. My e-mail is cutehomeman@gmail.com.

Title: Re: AIS won't delete a virus after 3 tries.It says rootkit sfloppy.sys .Anyone know?
Post by: Pondus on December 07, 2011, 01:41:53 AM

It was a false positive that was fixed with latest update...run manual update

you can read all about it in the virus and worms section   ;)

Title: Re: AIS won't delete a virus after 3 tries.It says rootkit sfloppy.sys .Anyone know?
Post by: friendlee_71 on December 07, 2011, 01:48:12 AM

Thank you very much Pondus. I beleive that did it! :)

Title: Re: AIS won't delete a virus after 3 tries.It says rootkit sfloppy.sys .Anyone know?
Post by: MayuraDeSilva on December 07, 2011, 07:40:32 AM

Thanks for info. I just got that rootkit notification.

Cheers...

Title: Re: AIS won't delete a virus after 3 tries.It says rootkit sfloppy.sys .Anyone know?
Post by: iyogisolutions1 on December 07, 2011, 04:17:26 PM

Please update the Virus definitons  to VPS 111207-0

Title: Re: AIS won't delete a virus after 3 tries.It says rootkit sfloppy.sys .Anyone know?
Post by: jason7619 on December 07, 2011, 07:50:44 PM

Hey, I got that one the other day. It was annoying I placed it in the Virus Chest. I ran GMER nothing. MBAM HitmanPro, PrevxSOL, Avira, KAV said it's clean. Check it also via VT, Jotti and OPSWAT --clean also. So I disregarded it (Ignore). Earlier it did that again while updating. I thought it was only me. A friend who also had it sent it to Avast.

Good thing it's been sorted out.   ;D