Win32: Somoto-F

[Lancer995]

Hi, i am mainly posting this since I freak out about everything and was really worried. The other night was dling stuff and I trusted stuff blah blah blah anyways I was worried so I schedualed a boot scan with avast. When I saw that 2 things were infected with win32: Somoto-F. I was hoping everything got cleared up when the scan found the stuff I told it to delete the stuff. I guess I'm really paranoided but I just wanted to get some feebback that everything is good since this computer has alot that I could lose on it.

[bob3160]

Never delete always put things in the virus chest.
Delete = no recourse   
Virus Chest =  putting things in a safe place with the chance to recover if it's a false positive.   

[Lancer995]

well thanks for the tip I will def start doing that but anybody know what that file was? Like i said main reasons why I posted it was I thought it was like a serious risk to my computer

[bob3160]

Since you chose to delete the file, it's impossible to give you further information.

[DavidR]

well thanks for the tip I will def start doing that but anybody know what that file was? Like i said main reasons why I posted it was I thought it was like a serious risk to my computer

Without the file name and location it isn't possible to even speculate ?

Was there a PUP suffix in the detection ?
e.g. win32:somoto-F [pup] as this Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) may or may not be as serious as you might think. PUPs can be tools/programs which can be used for good or evil, depending who installed it, etc. to determine why it might be considered a PUP we would need the information asked for.

[Pondus]

the file was probably betterinstaller.exe.  some toolbar crap from somoto

if you google these you find lots of info


Somoto BetterInstaller
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/adware-and-puas/Somoto%20BetterInstaller/detailed-analysis.aspx