Can someone tell me if I did correctly by putting it the virus chest. It being a WINDOWS file I’m not sure.
Send to Chest is the correct action when a file is detected.
It allows further investigation.
I suggest a boot time scanning with avast to be sure your compute is clean. Or, at least, a full computer scanning with avast! within Windows.
That was a boot time scan that found it. Is it ok to leave there or should I try to replace the cscript.exe file. Thanks
P.S. Didn’t intentionally post twice. Intelliguard from Spyware Doctor me from posting so I turned it off and tried again but somehow it did go through i guess…sorry
If it was the original file, it’s not a critical component.
http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/cscript/
But you can try extracting the file from Chest to a safe folder, open www.virustotal.com and submit it to analysis.
Where was it located? C:\Windows ?
Yes. 3 different places in C:\WINDOWS
Hmmm… strange. Seems only a clean version should be at C:\WINDOWS\CSCRIPT.EXE
Do you have it? Can you submit it to virus total to check?
Sure but where do I get a safe folder? Is it provided in Avast in the Chest area?
If I make a new folder on the desktop and extract it to there would it be safe?
Turns out it was a false positive by avast. 2 out of 41 thought it was malware when tested at VIRUS TOTAL
Update your avast and try again.
I’ll report the false positive to the virus lab.
False positive alert has been yesterday fixed in VPS 100109-1.