Avast! found Win32.Spyware-gen[Spy]

[IceSculpture]

It found it during a boot-time scan this morning, and with the pinned topic, I rescanned it and gave me the same result. The file was "Setup.exe" and the severity was high. It was in a game folder which I had for years now so I assumed it wasn't the game itself and I picked it up elsewhere until I looked at the chest and found avast found and put the same file from the same folder in my Backup external harddrive into the chest last year.

So now I'm really starting to freak out this thing was my computer for a couple of months without me realizing this somehow, possibly longer. What should I do? It was chested and deleted successfully (The one from last year from the backup I kept because I'd didn't want to delete it if you guys wanted me to send it to virustotal or something along those lines, if this isn't necessary let me know so I can just delete it).

I'm gonna do a Malwarebytes Scan soon as well(Which will take another couple of hours ontop of this), anything else I should do or is that enough for now?

[mikaelrask]

hey and welcome to the forum.

you could upload the file to virustotal.com and post the result here so we can have a lock at it.

but what you describe it sound it could be a false thread.

to be one the safe side please follow this guide and attach you logs.

a malware expert will remove if something comes up in the logs. 

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

good luck.

[IceSculpture]

Okay, attached logs, though aswMBR found something elsewhere that wasn't caught in earlier scans, do I delete it? That thread just said to post the log and I'm unsure if its safe to go ahead and delete it.  Have yet to use the Adcleaner yet since I was going to do that after aswMBR but...yeah.

edit: Attached the last log.

[Pondus]

you only let AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes remove.....

now you wait for result on OTL and aswMBR diagnostic logs.....

removal experts are notified and will arrive here later today

[essexboy]

It appears to be an Evo-gen detection on this game Touhou Guru Guru Danma  I would forward it to Avast via the chest to get it checked out

[IceSculpture]

Urg already deleted that one, last night I just concluded that I could do very much without that one. Anything else I should do and worry about?

[essexboy]

No that appeared to be the only problem.   Any anomalies with the computer ?

[IceSculpture]

Nope not one bit. It did run a bit slowly after adwcleaner rebooted but that seemed temporary. I did realize my backup external might still have some of these files though if that helps.

[essexboy]

Subject to no further problems   

I will remove my tools now and give some recommendations, but, I would like you to run for 24 hours or so and come back if you have any problems 

Now the best part of the day ----- Your log now appears clean  :thumbsup:

A good workman always cleans up after himself so..The following will implement some cleanup procedures as well as reset  System Restore points:

Run OTL and hit the cleanup button.  It will remove all the programmes we have used plus itself. 

Clear Restore Points

Go Start > All Programmes > Accessories > System tools
Right click Disc Cleanup and select run as administrator
When it pops up at the first prompt select OK after it has done some calculations the tabs will appear
Select More Options tab
Press Sytem Restore and Shadow Copies Cleanup button



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Malwarebytes.

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[IceSculpture]

Alright i'll do those steps when I have a stretch of time to do it smoothly tonight. Thanks for the help!