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Texas-Hansen

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Why would I have 2 system files in the Chest
« on: September 19, 2008, 04:20:41 AM »
Using Avast Pro.  I noticed today when looking at the Chest in Avast under subpart "System files" I have two system files that were transferred there on the date when I first installed Avast Pro.  The two files are:

Kernel32.dll   (orginal location C:\Windows\system32)
wsock32.dll   (orginal location C:\Windows\system32)

It does not list anything under the Virus column or Comment column and these are only located in this subfolder of the Chest.  Is this normal?  If not, how do I proceed?

Thanks

EDIT:  I'm guessing this might be normal as I took a look at my wife's XP laptop running Avast Pro and it also has the system files in the "System files" subfolder of the chest but has a total of 3 system files instead of my two.  Perhaps that's related to Vista 64 bit, which is what I'm running on my system. 
« Last Edit: September 19, 2008, 04:51:41 AM by Texas-Hansen »

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Re: Why would I have 2 system files in the Chest
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2008, 06:27:37 AM »
The reason there is only 2 files may very well be vista related. The files on both computers belong there. They are backup copies placed there by avast. So you guessed correctly.

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Re: Why would I have 2 system files in the Chest
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2008, 03:02:07 PM »
I have Vista and three files ???
Just to mention these files are clean and stored there for backup purposes (although I may admit I never saw avast asking for restoring them, neither avast is able to do it at boot time  :-\).
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Re: Why would I have 2 system files in the Chest
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2008, 05:12:39 PM »
I have the same three Tech, Maybe Texas-Hansen only having two has to do with Vista 64 bit, But I'm not sure.
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