Addendum to False positive, pcftofon.exe infected by Win32:malware-gen

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Addendum: I cannot force the infected files to repair, delete ot put to Chest. The program returns that it cannot be done with an error number. Every time I do a boot time scan it reports the name of the two infected files but I cannot take any action.

A boot time scan with AVAST 6.0 on my computer, XP home edition reports
Two files infected

  1. C:\System volume information_restore………\A0441292.msi|>Data1.cab|>pcftofon.exe infected by Win32: malware-gen
  2. . C:\Winnt\ downloaded installation……\x-Win32-7.1.msi.|>data1.cab| pcftofon.exe infected by Win32: malware-gen

Are these falae positives?

x-Win32-7.1: I downloaded this software for a program called putty to connect to unix machines. I have uninstalled this program.

Thanks.

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This should go in your original topic, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=81789.0, keeping all information together.

Just copy and paste it and don’t add anything to this topic.