Hi all and thx for reading. I have been experienceing a constant warning about “posible infection”. When I go to the Scanner settings and look at the Internet Mail section I see Last Scanned: subheading that its constantly changing and the Scanned count just keeps going up and up, about 2-3 e-mails a second. It appears to be sorting through mail that I do not have, actually, I am not even running Outlook Express at that time, which I use for e-mail.

I have paused the Internet Mail scanner and the warnings stop. I have turned it back on and they will stop for a while but it still sorts through this mail that I have no idea where its finding it and it will start with the warnings again later?

Also, it will constantly tells me that “the server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (obviously a IP) has timed out. Do I want to wait?” “Yes/No”
I have left my PC on overnight downloading stuff and I woke up and there was about 50-75 of these two combined warnings total.

I am fairly sure I got it from Kazaa (my own fault I know) but I assumed that Avast had me covered. :-\

What the hell is goin on?

I have done a number of boot-time scans and found nothing. Avast is telling my PC is clean but there is obviously a issue.

No,that has nothing to do with Kazaa. Mails are totaly seperate stuff which comes from a remote server,so you don’t have anything on your disk (as you already noticed after doing boot-time scans).

Timeout is a time in which remote mail server doesn’t respond. Try increasing Timeout number in avast! mail scanning provider.

Possible Infection detected warning is a heuristic part of avast!.
Examin marked messages with care and don’t launch attachements in such mails.

So most of the mails you got were infected and can be deleted or added to spam list (if you mail client supports such feature).
If you add these infected messages to spam list you won’t have to sort them later.

Hi,

If you want to double check your machine is virus free then I would run an online scanner just to make sure. I would pause your avast standard shield when doing this though but remember to re enable it afterwards.

Try Bitdefender scan engine at http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php?tab=0 and click on online scan. Other ones to try are Trend house call at http://uk.trendmicro-europe.com/

Let us know how you get on. If it does detect a virus don’t forget to send it to virus@asw.cz so avast can add detection. (Don’t forget to zip it and password it and include the password in your e mail)

Good Luck!

Jlo

Click on the link in my signature and follow the instructions on that webpage. This will make sure your system is clean.

Only checking with AV software is not enough.