Someone in a class I’m teaching over at VU has the Beagle-AS variant on her computer. I’m getting her to turn off System Restore and scan in Safe Mode before we come over here for help but I’ve also had her run the free cleaning tool which does not seem to have worked.
I’m wondering whether the variant Beagle-AS is one it can deal with because it’s not on your list of the programs the free tool can deal with. If it isn’t shouldn’t Avast itself be able to sort it out?
It may just be that she’s getting the alerts she says she’s getting when she downloads e-mail in which case it’s just a matter of deleting the infected e-mails but she’s not very clear about what’s happening so I hope you don’t mind a quick check up on this one.
Yup that’s exactly the situation I’m in, no info about operating system or what’s happening when or what she’s running or anything - I’m guessing that it’s XP home user service pack 2 but could be wrong! I’m doing my best but it’s tricky:) thank you so much for the link. Will share that with her.
I also suggested she get her Avast logs out and post that which would give some clues as to what’s happening.
Also told her if it’s just bombarding her with alerts as she downloads e-mail it’s probably perfectly OK. But it may not be that at all - don’t know at the moment.
If scanning in Safe Mode doesn’t work I’ll have to send her over here:)
If she has XP (and as you suggested disable system restore, reboot) then get her to ‘Schedule a Boot-Time Scan…’ from the menu in the Simple User Interface.
