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Umbra

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Did I get rid of viruses?
« on: January 06, 2012, 01:12:40 PM »
I did a boot scan and got two decompression bombs and two viruses, PUP: Win32:Downloader-LZS[PUP] and PUP:Win32 Toolbar-D[PUP]. Both decompression bombs have something to do with firefox but I guess they are harmless.
 During the scan I was asked what I wanted to do with the toolbar thing and I pressed 1, delete. Now when I go to the scan log and try to delete the downloader, it doesn't find it. If I try to move it to Chest, it gives this: error 0xC0000022.(-1073741790). Downloader's file name is ...AppData/Local/Temp/utt80DB.tmp.exe, toolbar's ...AppData/Local/Temp/utt80DB.tmp.exe|>[embedded_I#369c04]|>nsis.hdr. Were they in the same file and did I remove both of them while the scan?

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Re: Did I get rid of viruses?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2012, 03:18:07 PM »
Decompression bombs is just avast saying that there is a arhive that will unpack to a very large file...so the scanner wont do it
search the forum for "Decompression bombs"  with quotes... and you should find lots of info

PUP is not virus, just a warning that you have a program that can be used for good or bad.

PUP (potentially unwanted program)
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/PUP



Clean, Quarantine, or Delete?
http://antivirus.about.com/b/2007/03/11/clean-quarantine-or-delete.htm


« Last Edit: January 06, 2012, 03:19:46 PM by Pondus »

Umbra

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Re: Did I get rid of viruses?
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2012, 03:30:42 PM »
Ok thanks for the answer.