Hi
While scanning tonight it detected again this: C:\pagefile.sys, BV-Silly-82 Worm, Well my actual Pagefile is on my second hard drive, and since Pagefile is a windows system file, i wouldn’t think it would really be infected, this is the second week i got this. if anyone could reply to this, and let me know for sure, would be greatly appreciated
How big is the C:\pagefile.sys file?
Since? No, for sure not. System files could be easily infected, pagefile.sys is not an exception. But, in this particular case, this file is a virtual memory file. It could be an avast false positive, and it could be the case your computer was infected (the virus loaded in memory). I suggest you run a full (thorough) avast scanning and post the results.
The pagefile on C:\ was the same as real pagefile on second hard drive, size of 1,566,720–moved to my second drive to increase performance, and i had more space free on second hard drive, i ran a full scan last night with avast–using Thorough scan
So, you can delete the file on C:\ or, better, let it there and reduce its size to something like 256Mb.
Ok did a full scan, and nothing came up this time, thank you all
Maybe a false positive from avast?
But, did you change virtual memory settings?
Didn’t change any virtual memory settings at all, left that alone, and scan completed finding anything
Ok, thanks for posting anyway.
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