While doing a scan in my Windows XP 32bit system using avast 4.8 home, the program keeps detecting 'pagefile.sys' on my Windows 7 64bit partition as a virus. The detecting keeps happening even after I allow avast to delete the 'pagefile.sys' file that Windows 7 64bit automatically recreates.
Is this a false positive by the scanner or am I truly infected? How can I find out?
If it is in fact an infection, shouldn't some part the virus also be located somewhere else to continue reinfecting the 'pagefile.sys' in Windows 7?
Also, the virus is detected by avast as 'Win32:Adloader-AC [Trj]'.
The exact text is as follows:
'Sign of "Win32:Adloader-AC [Trj]" has been found in "G:\pagefile.sys" file.'