I'm not sure if this was a false-positive situation, or what. By way of background, I've got Home-4, both program and database are current, and in addition to my resident scanners I like to do a full-disk scan once a week or so. So far those have always come up clean.
I also like to once in a while pop into to Trend's HouseCall too, for an "outside" check. Tonight it said I'd picked up this one (the Java Bytverify.A), but it couldn't delete the infected files because they were in use. That's probably because a good chunk of Java (I use Sun's) is a plug-in for IE6, and of course that's how I get to Trend.
So I dropped offline and tried an avast scan again, thorough this time -- again no infections found. Interestingly, I searched for the supposedly infected zip file, to possibly delete it myself, and there's no sign of it on my drive.
Ok, next step -- rebooted in safe mode (XP-Home, by the way) and tried again, just in case it was one of those "in use by another process" things. Exactly the same results, nothing -- no infection, and no such file.
So should I just assume it was probably a HouseCall false-positive, and quit worrying about it? Or is there additional checking of some kind I should be doing?
Sorry so long-winded, but sometimes I do ramble, plus I wanted to give you the info as complete as possible on the first try.
Thanks and best,
Mike