Could someone please help me with your opinion if what I had is a virus or just a false positive.
I have AV 4.8 home, win XP
the other day I was watching a video on a streaming site with firefox browser, when I got a warning that there was a win 32:trojan-gen found in one of the google files. I scaned the laptop and AV found 64 other win32-malware-gen or win32:trojan-gen
I put them in quarantine. I rescaned some of them the same day and it said it was malware-trojan.
The next day I updated AV library and randomly rescaned some of the files and it was clear - no virus found.
most of the infected files come from C:System Volume Information/_restore...
4 files are from google C:Documents and settings...Google crash handler.exe, Google update.exe, GoogleUpdateSetup.exe (2x)
Do you think this is a virus or false positive?
I found here, that system volume information is a system restore program, so I disabled it. I don't know if I can clean the temporary files since I have a full sandbox.
I'd like to upgrade my AV to a more recent version. Will the files in sandbox remain there, or will they empty?
Any help apreciated