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Avast says SAS is infected with 14 threats?
kkatie:
So yesterday I visited a site (Brothersoft) that I later found out was unsafe. Avast web rep had good ratings for it so I thought it would be okay. After realising it was unsafe, I scanned with Avast, and found 4 infections. I believe 2 were in SAS and two were in Google Desktop.
So after trying boot scans and such, I failed to get rid of these infections. I decided to reinstall Windows this morning, and started over with a brand new bill of computer health.
So then I set about re-downloading and installing all my old protection, which included SAS obviously. After downloading SAS, I decided to scan with Avast. When it finished, lo and behold there were 14 infections!
They are all things along the lines of:
Process 2916 [superantispyware.exe], memory block 0x000000000[a bunch of numbers], block size [a bunch of numbers]
Severity: High
Their names are things like:
Win32:Renos-RS [Drp]
Win32:Carberp-FN [Trj]
INF:AutoRun-AX [Wrm]
Win32:Kobcka-M [Trj]
and several others like that.
They don't sound like false positives to me. I downloaded SAS from techspot.com after the official site directed me there. I'm really worried about this! What should I do can anyone please help?
Pondus:
--- Quote ---They are all things along the lines of:
Process 2916 [superantispyware.exe], memory block 0x000000000[a bunch of numbers], block size [a bunch of numbers]
--- End quote ---
was this a custom scan ?
did you select "scan memory"
kkatie:
--- Quote from: Pondus on January 22, 2012, 03:17:47 PM ---
--- Quote ---They are all things along the lines of:
Process 2916 [superantispyware.exe], memory block 0x000000000[a bunch of numbers], block size [a bunch of numbers]
--- End quote ---
was this a custom scan ?
did you select "scan memory"
--- End quote ---
yes and yes.
Pondus:
what you are detecting is superantispyware signatures loaded in memory.....
this is also why the apply button is gray....you cant move a process to chest.....it is not a file
very common when you have other security programs installed and using the "scan memory" setting.....the forum is full of these cases if you search
so do not play with the scan settings if you do not know the result of doing it.......so could have saved you a reinstall ;)
DO NOT use the "scan memory" setting, but use the default quick/full scan with default settings
kkatie:
Oh, thank you SO much! I don't mind reinstalling that much, it's nice to clear everything out once in a while anyway, it's almost quite a hobby of mine.
I'm sorry, I did try searching but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem and I was a bit flustered about it all. I made a custom scan just because I heard that the "Full system" scan isn't that full at all, and that it doesn't scan a lot of things. :s But thanks! I won't scan Memory anymore, thanks so much :3
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