I've left a post in Gabriele 08's thread
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=28039.0It's probably best if I continue here though. I'll copy what was said in the other thread and then continue. I don't know if this is how you're supposed to do it, but I can't work out how to quote from that thread in here...
I wrote:
Sadly, my problem hasn't been resolved, since I've had 2 more occurrences since my last post. The second of these came when (having used CCleaner when I came offline previously), I opened Internet Explorer, my homepage (Google) came up, and I was called away and so logged off. On using CCleaner, Avast found (traces of) a virus in the temp internet files!
Since I, and other members of this Forum with far greater knowledge than mine, had pretty well decided that these were false-positives, and since it seemed to be using CCleaner that was causing the problem to some extent, I've set Internet Explorer to empty the temp internet files when the browser is closed. I'm still using CCleaner as well, but nothing has come up so far, after 2 days of doing this.
I'm assuming that if there really was a virus/Trojan, Avast would still detect it when Windows cleared the files (?)
Tech replied:
Quote from: GrahamE on Today at 12:04:56 AM
"Sadly, my problem hasn't been resolved, since I've had 2 more occurrences since my last post".
If you still detecting any strange behavior or even you're sure you're not clean, maybe it will be good to test your machine with anti-rootkit applications (
http://www.antirootkit.com/software/index.htm). I suggest AVG, Panda and/or F-Secure BlackLight.
Quote from: GrahamE on Today at 12:04:56 AM
"Since I, and other members of this Forum with far greater knowledge than mine, had pretty well decided that these were false-positives".
Do any of us said so?