Avast Free reports Win7 System Dump is Trojan

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Avast Free is showing me this scan result (custom scan with sensitivity set at max):

https://i.imgur.com/jxrjFso.png

I believe this means Avast thinks the OS dump is hidding a trojan.
Is this a false alarm or should be taken seriously?

2

I’d try running the same scan with scan sensitivity set to Normal followed by a system reboot.

If it reports the same after reboot then you could have an issue and could submit the file to avast. Report back either way.

3

Rebooted, scanned (same scan but sensitivity set to normal) and no issues were found. So it’s a false positive, right?

4

Correct answer would be it’s a non issue.

5

Absolutely.

Non-issue.

Reason being if scanning sensitivity is set to High/Max, then files not normally detected will always be, as different scanning criteria are used. You will also get the same results if you try to run two or more antivirus programs at the same time on the same system.

More is not better in this case.

http://ask-leo.com/is_realtime_antimalware_scanning_really_needed.html
https://www.howtogeek.com/154536/why-you-dont-need-to-run-manual-antivirus-scans-and-when-you-do/