Found something on a virus scan.  What should I do?

One_Hapless_Gamer · 2017-07-10T03:44:34.000Z

Hey all.

So, it seems I’m not the only one who found something similar, but I might as well share this quickly and ask for some advice. First of all, I have Avast Premier - not the free version of Avast. I did a scan earlier today and had two/one item pop up. This is the item, along with its Name and Virus info according to the Virus Chest -

“C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn\Burn”
Name: desktop.ini Virus - Other:Malware-gen [Trj]

It’s still in the Virus Chest, and I did a scan through it which marks it still as “Other:Malware-gen [Trj]”. The file itself is an odd one, since I never burn anything. I also did a scan with Malwarebytes (Free) and came up clean. A second virus scan with Avast as well as a Smart Scan marked me off as clean as well after the first scan and file isolation. What should I do though? Should I worry about this file? What could this be or what could it have done, if possible to answer?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Asyn · 2017-07-10T03:57:32.000Z

Hi, it’s a FP, see: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=205277.0

LukasJ · 2017-07-10T07:35:00.000Z

Hi, detection was disabled.

Lukáš

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