Avast virus cleaner

Viruses and worms
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I have a worm on my comp and i recently added it to my virus chest on avast now when i run avast virus cleaner it doesn’t show my computer is infected at all. Now is that happending because i put the worm in my virus chest or could it just be that the virus cleaner program hasn’t been updated to find the kind of worm i have?? Anyone have any clue.

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You have answered your question :wink:
When you put a file in the virus chest no one has access to the file(even and avast! Virus Cleaner) :wink:

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so if i were to remove it from the chest do u think then it would let avast virus scan pick it up? and if it didnt pick it up would avast let me detect it again?

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Why do you want to remove the virus from the chest? The virus is in save there and it can’t harm your PC :wink:

Well I don’t know, it depends what is the virus and although avast! Virus Cleaner Tool detects only a small number of viruses, while avast! Home(or Pro) can detect hundreds of viruses.

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the name of the viruses are arc.zip-4ad93944-4504b7e9.zip and archive.jar-314e6f5a-53b46114.zip even thought that prob. doesn’t mean much but I’m just looking for a way to get rid of them

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First I think that these are the names of the infected files and not the virus names :wink:
Second are these files in the Virus Chest or not? If they are in the Chest you can safely delete them from the Chest :wink:

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JS:Exploit-bytverify-7
and JS:Exploit-byverify-2
those are the virus names if i delete them from the chest does that delete them from my computer or just from the chest?

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  1. Ensure that your OS and Java is fully upto date to avoid any exploit in the first place.
  2. Re deleting files from the chest - There is no rush to delete anything from the chest, they can’t do any harm there. Anything that you send to the chest you should leave there for a week or two, to ensure your system is OK. That way the file is still available to restore if required, after that time if everything is ok you can delete it from within the chest.
  3. The files in the chest have been moved from their original location and is the only copy, that is why you couldn’t find any infection on subsequent scans. When you delete the file from the chest you are deleting the only copy, that is why note 2. above is important.
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what does os stand for?

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Operating System, what version of windows.

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Windows xp but i haven’t done any of the updates for it lately

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Which version of XP (SP1/SP2 ?), that should be your next port of call, windows update.

There have been many vulnerabilities that are being explioted and MS have been patching them regularly. If your system is out of date then these exploits will be back.

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If you ‘extract’ (not remove) to a floppy you can test from there.

avast! Virus Cleaner Tool detects only a small number of viruses, while avast! Home(or Pro) can detect hundreds of viruses.
I don't think it's a matter of [b]detection[/b] but [b]cleaning[/b]. Both could clean the same things (generally infected executable files). avast! Virus Cleaner [i]detects[/i] only the ones it could clean. avast! Home (or Pro) detects all virus in their database (we expect that all of the virus ;D).

Shame on you ;D
This is not secure as you may realised :wink:

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I updated both Java and Windows

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Good work, you can have a rest now and hopefully experience a period of calm.

A belated welcome to the forums.