Everything is a rootkit?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello,

I recently unistalled my AVG anti virus and installed Avast 5. I have avast on another computer and it works just fine. On this one however, it keeps detecting rootkits. I have scanned in safe mode with Spybot S&D, superantispyware, malwarebytes and avast, all turning up clean. Avast seems to flag everything as a rootkit, when I open up notepad, there is a pop saying notepad.exe was moved to the chest. It does it for other things too, like a game I have on both computers, one computer avast flags the other it doesn’t. I think it is also intefreing with my printer as I have been having trouble connecting to it (blocks spoolsv.exe that is printer related from what I have googled).

Do I have some virus/malware etc, or is it something else.

Windows XP btw.

Thanks.

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Strange… we have other reports today…
It’s strange these false positives. Notepad.exe is not being detected in my language Windows 7.
Can you run a boot time scanning and write down the names of the infected files?
Do not harm your computer right now… as you can send to Chest files needed and clean…

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@ Tech,

I think it is a false positive, may be.

This detection was added in 100511-0 so may be a fix is on the way.

Although I would recommend uploading the file to virustotal.com and checking.

nmb

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Strange... we have other reports today...

yep, just what I thought…and nothing here either on W7.

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Ran the boot scan and it picked up something. Win32:Rootkitgen [rtk]

I guess the previous safe mode scans missed it.

Thanks guys.

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Hello,
which detection?

Milos

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Hello

Win32:Kates-BD [Trj]

Reported by some other user here, in the forum. He too had the same problem - the notepad thing. Searching for that post… hope I find it.

Thx
nmb