Couple of viruses should I delete

Viruses and worms
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I have attached an old 6gb hardrive thats in an enclosure box to my pc by usb. Quite quickly avast detected a couple of infected files. I have to admit I didnt give myself much time to read what the pop up window said I just pressed send to chest for both. They are still there and they are also in the infected files section, if I scan them they both say infected. Should I delete them from the infected files and chest? I have also copied the whole external drive to my hardrive in my pc but only after I sent the infected files to chest is this ok? Thankyou for any advice anyone can give on this

They are:

Virus has been detected!
File Name: pskavs.dll
FileID: 8
Virus Description: Win32:CTX

Virus has been detected!
File Name: pxwma.dll
FileID: 7
Virus Description: Win32:Delf-RT [trj]

EDIT

Thought I should come back again to say I have just scanned the drive on its own and it has again come up with the same 2 infected files only the name of the file has changed, guess that means by me putting it onto my hardrive this pc will be infected now :o

Virus has been detected!
File Name: A0093545.dll
FileID: 10
Virus Description: Win32:CTX

Virus has been detected!
File Name: A0093544.dll
FileID: 9
Virus Description: Win32:Delf-RT [trj]

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Well the first file pskavs.dll may be a false positive, google says it belongs to Panda security ( does that mean anything to you )
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=40938.msg343203#msg343203
The second file , i think is adware,so you should scan with MBAM and SAS.

Do not delete files from the chest,leave them there.
As for the files changing names, I think those files are in your system restore ( system volume information )

So are the scans showing clean now ? ( do not include system volume info files) ?

http://filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
http://filehippo.com/download_superantispyware/

Please tell me the locations of any infected files

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Not a false positive on pskavs.dll as such as this file contains unencrypted virus signatures used for panda scans. So avast is doing what it should detecting virus signatures, panda like any other good AV should encrypt its signatures to prevent other security software detecting it.

So I can only assume that you have run a panda on-line scan at some point ?

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Hi Thankyou for the replies,

I personally have never ran panda on this pc but it was given to me so maybe someone before me did. Having said that I may have ran it once perhaps years ago on the 6gb hd that the virus was on but I never kept it so that may be the reason.

I already have superanti and malwarebytes reccommended to me recently and they are great. I did not realize anyone had replied so in the mean time I scanned the f drive that I had copied the hardisc too and that was also infected they went to chest too. I then ran superantispyware to cover the whole pc and external usb drive and it picked up 4 adware and

trojan.dropper/gen TALKTOME\WINRECDS.EXE

trojan.unclassified/dropper PCDOCWIN\DIAG115.EXE

After getting rid of those into the quarantine I set up a boot up scan on avast to deep scan archives and full comp including the g drive usb. It completed with lots of archive corruptions but I know from a previous query to ignore those other than that it says no infections found. I dont know whether it is going to stay that way though. What should I do about the infected files now in avast and the quarantined ones in superanti? I do feel a bit nervous about them as the ones in avast if I scan them still say infected

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If the files detected as infected are in either the avast chest (a protected area) or the SAS Quarantine they shouldn’t be able to do any harm there.

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They are in the chest but the bit at the top that says infected files and the bit at the bottom saying all chest files, they have a scary looking skull and crossbones next to them

Do you think the problem is fixed and wont come back now?

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I really do wish Alwil would get rid of this All Chest Files collation of the three sections:

  • The only area you should be interested in is the Infected Files section, this is where the files detected by avast and selected by you to move to the chest are placed.- The User Files section is where the user can add files they suspect of being malware but not detected by avast.- The System Files section is where avast keeps back-up copies of important system files in case the original becomes infected (leave them alone).- The All Chest Files is a collation of the three sections.