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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: Umbra on January 06, 2012, 01:12:40 PM

Title: Did I get rid of viruses?
Post by: Umbra on January 06, 2012, 01:12:40 PM

I did a boot scan and got two decompression bombs and two viruses, PUP: Win32:Downloader-LZS[PUP] and PUP:Win32 Toolbar-D[PUP]. Both decompression bombs have something to do with firefox but I guess they are harmless.
 During the scan I was asked what I wanted to do with the toolbar thing and I pressed 1, delete. Now when I go to the scan log and try to delete the downloader, it doesn't find it. If I try to move it to Chest, it gives this: error 0xC0000022.(-1073741790). Downloader's file name is ...AppData/Local/Temp/utt80DB.tmp.exe, toolbar's ...AppData/Local/Temp/utt80DB.tmp.exe|>[embedded_I#369c04]|>nsis.hdr. Were they in the same file and did I remove both of them while the scan?

Title: Re: Did I get rid of viruses?
Post by: Pondus on January 06, 2012, 03:18:07 PM

Decompression bombs is just avast saying that there is a arhive that will unpack to a very large file...so the scanner wont do it
search the forum for "Decompression bombs"  with quotes... and you should find lots of info

PUP is not virus, just a warning that you have a program that can be used for good or bad.

PUP (potentially unwanted program)
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/PUP



Clean, Quarantine, or Delete?
http://antivirus.about.com/b/2007/03/11/clean-quarantine-or-delete.htm

Title: Re: Did I get rid of viruses?
Post by: Umbra on January 06, 2012, 03:30:42 PM

Ok thanks for the answer.