i have this on my pc is wreaking havoc on my laptop i scanned it with avast virus cleaner tool and when it was finished i have this message:
avast! Virus Cleaner Tool - version 1.0.211 Unicode
Creating log file: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0UWFDR41\aswclnr[1].log
1/1/2010, 10:04:25 AM
Memory scanning started…
No virus body found in memory.
Memory scanning finished (7.3s).
Files scanning started…
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\Active\RecoveryStore.{45932D6C-F692-11DE-9B1D-001E6821AFAF}.dat… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\Active{45932D6D-F692-11DE-9B1D-001E6821AFAF}.dat… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp~DF39EC.tmp… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp~DF9FC4.tmp… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp~DF9FD4.tmp… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp~DFA145.tmp… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp~DFA155.tmp… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp~DFA192.tmp… file could not be scanned!
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp~DFA1A2.tmp… file could not be scanned!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\edb.log… file could not be scanned!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\tmp.edb… file could not be scanned!
No virus body found.
Files scanning finished (31881 files, 0 infected, 1416.4s).
Drives scanned: C:
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Files that can’t be scanned are just that, not an indication they are suspicious/infected, just unable to be scanned.
Many programs (usually security based ones) password protect their files for legitimate reasons such as AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy, there are others (and avast doesn’t know the password or have any way of using it even if it did know it).
I think in this case when we are in a situation of trying to remove malware and not during a routine scan, things have to be treated with more suspicion.
Given that some of these are .tmp files in the temp folder, there really shouldn’t be any reason why they should return the file could not be scanned! notification. Also none of the file locations are related to other security software which would legitimately protect its data.
In fact this isn’t a scan by the regular avast scanner but the “avast! Virus Cleaner Tool - version 1.0.211 Unicode” This is only looking for a small number of viruses and worm infections as listed on the page that the aswclnr.exe was downloaded from.
@ exodus138
As from the above you will see that the “avast! Virus Cleaner Tool - version 1.0.211 Unicode” is very limited in what it detects (and cleans) the main avast! antivirus would be more relevant when scanning for malware. You have to install that however, if you have it installed then that is what you should run. Plus (and or if you haven’t got it installed), then use the other tools and cleaning links to try to remove it.
thank u to everyone for ur suggestions ive been trying to remove this file for a week and in a manner of hours with ur help its gone! thank u all soo much!
