Hi,
Yesterday I downloaded and installed Avast 4 Home Edition and I scanned my local drives to check for any virus. After a couple of minutes Avast sounded the alarm because there was a (worm)virus found in one of the DLL-files located in the WINDOWS\System32 map or directory (I use Win XP Home Edition on a P4 2,4 GHz Tulip notebook running 512 MB internal memory shared with 32 MB video memory). Then Avast "asked" me what to do with the infected DLL-file: Move/Rename it, Delete it, Repair it, Move it to Chest, or do nothing and leave the file infected by going on with scanning. Of course I wanted to get rid of the virus, so I chose the option Repair to remove the virus from the infected (DLL-)file. Then Avast "said" the virus cannot be removed from the file because this DLL-file is in use by (an)other component(s) of Win XP. Is there any solution for this? Am I doing something wrong? How can I check which component uses this DLL-file? If there is no solution for this problem and I didn't anything wrong, probably the only way to remove viruses from files which are normally in use by the Win OS is to exit Win and run an antivirus program under MS-DOS (I must admit, in some situations I miss the good-old DOS very, very much!).
Another question.
When I download Avast 4 Home Edition, do I have to download Avast Virus Cleaner seperately, or is Avast VC a component of the Avast 4 HE package?
Many thanks to those who answers/answered my questions.
John Doe, NL.