followed instructions and put it into chest, now what? Should I go ahead and plug it into my laptop, or reset the iPod? Thanks for your help
You have done the right thing, ‘first do no harm’ don’t delete, send virus to the chest and investigate.
Deletion isn’t really a good first option (you have none left), ‘first do no harm’ don’t delete, send virus to the chest (a protected area) and investigate.
There is no rush to delete anything from the chest, a protected area where it can do no harm. Anything that you send to the chest you should leave there for a few weeks. If after that time you have suffered no adverse effects from moving these to the chest, scan them again (inside the chest) and if they are still detected as viruses, delete them.
What is the infected file name, where was it found e.g. (C:\windows\system32\infected-file-name.xxx) ?
You could also check the offending/suspect file at: VirusTotal - Multi engine on-line virus scanner and report the findings here, post the URL in the Address bar of the VT results page. You can’t do this with the file securely in the chest, you need to Open the chest and right click on the file and select ‘Extract’ it to a temporary (not original) location first, see below.
Create a folder called Suspect in the [b]C:[/b] drive. Now exclude that folder in the File System Shield, Expert Settings, Exclusions, Add, type (or copy and paste) C:\Suspect*
That will stop the File System Shield scanning any file you put in that folder.
thanks for the completeness of your post. forgot to say it was listed as simply D: fede.exe. Noticed on Virscan.org it’s been making the rounds http://f.virscan.org/fede.exe.html
think I’ll wait two weeks before taking my next step. I can see working w viruses you can learn a bit of comp sci
Yes, given the high detection rates, it seems a good detection, provided that the MD5/SHA1 hash matches the file you have as relying on the file name is not as accurate.