Avast IM Shield & SECUNIA; Is Secunia causing recording of many items?

[kls490]

Good morning everyone,

     I was just reviewing my various real-time shield logs and noticed the IM shield shows having scanned as many as 435 items (on Feb 16th).  I do NOT use instant messaging programs to communicate with ANYONE, so I am wondering WHY Avast is recording IM activity at all?  Note:  I have never observed this type activity before.

Any enlightenment would be much appreciated!

Regards,

[DJBone]

Maybe some IM-Program has set itself to the autostart without your permission? Please take a look at this.

DJBone

[RejZoR]

Post a "Last scanned file" that you can see inside the IM Shield. Maybe we will be able to pinpoint the IM messenger that's running without your knowledge based on that. It's usually fairly easy to find out.

[kls490]

O.K. Rejzor...here is a screenshot of the IM Shield log for your review.  I appreciate your feedback too DJBone!

[ady4um]

We can't see the entire path and exact file over the "Last scanned" field in your screen shot.

[DJBone]

Hmh, unfortunately i can't see the full program path. Could you please extract the path?

DJBone

[kls490]

How do I do that DJBone?  (I'm not much of a computer whiz)...sorry).  Thanks.

[DJBone]

How do I do that DJBone?  (I'm not much of a computer whiz)...sorry).  Thanks.

Just move over the shown path with your mouse and it will be shown in full length. Then make another screenshot.

DJBone

[kls490]

Is this screenshot the one you were looking for?

[DJBone]

Is this screenshot the one you were looking for?

Yes, thanks. But i can't figure out which program is causing this traffic. The path is the temp-folder of your internet explorer. Could you please take a look at your task manager what processes are running?

DJBone

[kls490]

There are something like 51 processes currently running.  Because the list takes up more than one page...there is no way to get a screenshot of every single process for you to see. 

Something I should note here is that prior to February 16th, I had NEVER seen ANY activity recorded in either the IM or P2P shield logs.  The only thing I did yesterday (Feb 16th was to download that Secunia program and use it.

Could this be causing this issue with the IM shield?

[DJBone]

This could be possible. I'm not sure if Secunia installs some Adware with or without your permission.

DJBone

[kls490]

I'll uninstall the program right now and observe the IM Shield log to see if there is any change & report back.

Thanks very much again for your time and help, and also to you ady4um!

[Hermite15]

the IM shield makes errors off and on, I reported that not long ago, when I noticed that it was scanning "dropbox". Doesn't happen anymore though.

[DJBone]

I'll uninstall the program right now and observe the IM Shield log to see if there is any change & report back.

Thanks very much again for your time and help, and also to you ady4um!

Please report back the result.

DJBone