I just did a manual scan and avast! picked up WIN32:Beagle-gen2 in my documents and settings, apparently through Outlook Express. My first of a few questions is, why did avast! not pick it through the usual pop mail scanning process?
I put the file in the chest, and it’s original file name is stated as: computer dbx ???What is this, and can I safely delete it?
It there a way to repair or restore files once they are in the chest? I tend to get flustered when a virus is found and did not choose repair, at the time.)
Finally, I went to execute a boot-time scan after I ran the avast! virus cleaner, and though I tried three times, a quick error message comes up (so quick I cannot read it) and boot-time scan refuses to run. Help?
Hi chameleon,
this is imho a Mailbox-file of your Outlook; if you delete it, you migth loose all the mails in it
move the file back to its original location, pause avast shield, and delete the worm mail from within outlook.
Imho avast even reports the subject line in its report, otherwise identify the virusmail via size and subject according to beagle/bagle info from avast or other AV-Sites
empty trash and compact ALL mailboxes; then it shoudl be gone…
reenable avast
more info should be available via a board-search for DBX
P.S.: test your mailscanning providers with the harmless testfile eicar.com from www.eicar.com
help on best procedure in the board
Hi, I did the eicar test, and that was perceived immediatly.
I tried to follow your other instructions, but I could not locate the mail…no subject was given. I ran a Windows search for the file, found it, scanned it and put it in the chest again. This is what info I have in the chest:
Original file name: computer.dbx
Original folder:C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Local
Settings\Application
Data\Identities{7B600499-8831-4484-BC8C-344B26897FFF}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\computer.dbx
Size of file:335984
Last modification time: 03.04.2004 09:50:29
Time of transfer to C…:03.04.2004 09:56:29
Category: Infected files
Virus Description:WIN32:Beagle-gen2[Mail]
File ID: 6
hmm, confused. I did google the dbx file. Apparently I can restore the file again, albeit it with some pain, for a newbo like myself.
the info in the chest is imho not complete, do a complete thorough scan from within avast mainscanner on the file in its original location, and see what it says… if you still can’t find a subject :
it can’t be tooo difficult to read the info on beagle and look for suspicious subjects / sizes in the restored mailbox-file ???
or restore the file, and delete all mails bigger than 20k in the computer-mailbox-folder
I still couldn’t locate the offending thing. But I finally realised through a general dbx search of my computer that the “computer.dbx” was a folder of mine, which, as the name suggests, stored mail relating to computer stuff. The folder was empty, so I lost all my mail in there. No great tragedy.
Thank you for all your help. At least I learned something about dbx’s today! I’m very curious what could have caused it in the first place, but I have no way of finding out. A weird mystery.
Can it be possible that you got the infected e-mail before the detection was added into avast! virus database?
I know it’s probably a little too late, but I would suggest the same as whocares recommended - compacting the folders may help you to delete the “invisible” messages hidden there.
If you have moved the file to Chest, you can certainly restore it. If you deleted it, you’re out of luck I’m afraid.
Yes, it should work, too - if you provide it with the original location.
The difference between Extract and Restore is that Extract copies the file from Chest to given location (and keeps a copy of the file in Chest as well), wheras Restore copies the file to its original location and removes it from the Chest.
