Avast sees Memory.DMP as Virus

Viruses and worms
1

When I put my iPod into the adapter before running iTunes I get a BSOD in WinXP. This causes a mini dump into a file Memory.DMP. When I run Avast it sees this file as various virus’.

Sign of “Win32:Lineage-520 [trj]” has been found in “C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP” file.
Sign of “Win32:Horst-EY [trj]” has been found in “C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP” file.
Sign of “Win32:Agent-FOS [trj]” has been found in “F:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP” file.
Sign of “Win32:Mytob-TE [Wrm]” has been found in “C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP” file.
Sign of “Win32:Banload-ANQ [trj]” has been found in “C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP” file.

Any idea why it is seeing this?

2

Perhaps these were loaded along with the iTunes … depending on how/where you got the music from.

3

I have scanned the iPod and it’s clean.

4

These could be false positives. I suggest that you send the samples to virus@avast.com zipped and password protected with the password in email body, a link to this topic might help, and false positive in the subject line.

5

Alas, even zipped the file is over a gig. I’ll just let Avast delete it and be careful about my iPod.