Configuration: PC with Windows XP, avast 4.8.1335
I have the following problem: I had connected two external USB-Disks, one on G: and one on H: and copied contents of G: to H:. While copying, a single file was reported as malicious. I decided to copy that file to the specially created folder "Malware" on H: and not to it's former place in the directory-structure of h. As I had some other problems with the drive H:, I had to do the same copy several more times. But the next times, I did not anymore copy the reported file to that "Malware"-folder, but left it in it's directory structure.
Just before, I had connectet the same external USB drive on H:, emptied and formatted it, but copied totally different stuff (from a CD as source) on that drive. And what am I discovering at the end of the copy-process: an empty folder called "Malware" on drive H:.
What the hell has this folder to do there? Where does it come from? How can I get rid of it again? And what do I have to do that it never will reappear again?
My only explanation is, that it has something to do with avast - but what?