"Win32:Polipos" Please Help!

[adrianoreis]

Well I have avast Professional and lately it has found several components of win xp and internet explorer, DOS, windows media player and others like virus, and TBM as installer detects some virus, orbit, winamp, bittorrent and many others.
i've formatted my pc several times, and installed windows on the hd without having any program already downloaded avast again and continues as detecting virus.
Anyone have any solution to sort out this problem, my avast is already updated.
Thanks

[Lisandro]

Which is your avast version and the virus definitions version?
When does this start to happen?
Did you submit the files to Alwil to check if they're false positives?

[adrianoreis]

I have Avast 4.8 Professional, the errors start to happen everytime i open up something for example Internet explorer and other programs. And no i did not submit the files.

[Rednose]

Hi adrianoreis

What does Avast! detect ?

Greetz, Red.

[adrianoreis]

Hi adrianoreis

What does Avast! detect ?

Greetz, Red.

It detects,  "Win32:Polipos" as a Worm

[Rednose]

Ok, that is no file infector ( I was afraid about that ), but now I am clueless Tech

Greetz, Red.

[Lisandro]

Tech

I've asked for Alwil help... it's a strange situation for me.

[adrianoreis]

12/25/2009 12:45:20 PM   Adriano Reis   1188   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 12:57:35 PM   Adriano Reis   1840   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:00:16 PM   Adriano Reis   1840   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:25:31 PM   Adriano Reis   1840   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB956572$\wmiprvse.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:26:23 PM   Adriano Reis   1840   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:54:35 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:54:41 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\alcmtr.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:54:44 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:54:45 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\regedit.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:54:50 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\system32\dmadmin.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:54:55 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\system32\locator.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:54:57 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\system32\logon.scr" file.  
12/25/2009 1:55:03 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\system32\logonui.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:55:06 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 1:55:24 PM   Adriano Reis   2856   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "c:\windows\system32\scardsvr.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 2:00:07 PM   Adriano Reis   1648   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\ALCMTR.EXE" file.  
12/25/2009 2:00:07 PM   Adriano Reis   1648   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\inf\unregmp2.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 2:00:11 PM   Adriano Reis   1648   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" file.  
12/25/2009 2:13:33 PM   Adriano Reis   1648   Sign of "Win32:Polipos" has been found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe" file.  


If this helps?

[Rednose]

it's a strange situation for me.

Are you sure

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=38770.0

Greetz, Red.

[adrianoreis]

[adrianoreis]

it's a strange situation for me.

Are you sure

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=38770.0

Greetz, Red.

Oh, thank you so much, i'll try to do the same as that guy did and i'll here post what happened after

[igor]

Win32:Polipos certain is a file infector.

[Pondus]

http://www.pc1news.com/virus/virus-polipos.html

http://www.drweb-online.de/en/win32polipos.asp?rpid=

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32poliposa.html

[Rednose]

Yeah, it was my first thought it could be a file infector, but I never heard about this one. I am sorry about that

Greetz, Red.

[adrianoreis]

hey guys, its me again.

Its weird it only detects a virus in windows XP  not in vista :/