Good evening all, I was just doing several scans (a complete one, a fast one, etc.) and when I scanned my hard drive I got an error in some files I could recognise and they were some of the .dat of a folder with a version of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Portable (downloaded from the internet, but secure) and a file from an Avast internal folder. It is a bit strange, as the complete scan didn't find a single issue and the Windows Explorer of my C:\ drive found the error mentioned before. The folder was located in \Desktop, and as I protected the Desktop folder with the recently added Ransomware Shield that could be a reason for that (Avast doesn't trust itself!?), but I don't think so. I located easily the folder, and used 7zip to open a .cdd file where the "protected files" where. 7zip opened it but still marked a wrong password, and I scanned the files on their own and they where clean. What did happen, which program created the password for these 3 files? I have no idea... And the avast internal detections (even more strange)... Are these:
C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\IDS\outbox\tmp_21f051bd-3dc4-47cf-99ed-b56e7140ca0d.zip|>nodes.xml
C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\IDS\outbox\tmp_21f051bd-3dc4-47cf-99ed-b56e7140ca0d.zip|>ExternalData.xml
Can anyone identify these files?
My laptop is working fine (no virus symptoms or rootkits, no detections in scans) but having protected files (and not knowing the password!) is just really annoying!
Thanks for all the help in advance!