Hey all my computer just caught this virus today, and the action i took was put in the avast chest…whatever that is. What action should i take to remove this? Plz help the trojan/virus is Win32:Adloader-AZ[Trj]
Hello
You said that you have moved the virus to avast! Virus Chest, right? So if you don’t get any other warnings, everything is all right
Well, I will suggest you to make a full system scan, just in case
The Virus Chest is a special folder where avast! store infected files, and only the program has access to this folder, so once the file is in the Chest, only you can remove it from there
Here’s the description from the Help files (sometimes the help files are very useful ):
The Chest can be thought of as a special folder on your computer that is safe and isolated, which makes it a suitable place for storing specific files. You can still work with the files in the Chest, but with some restrictions.Main features
Complete isolation from the rest of the operating system. No outer process can affect files in the Chest. It means that no virus can infect them either.
Files in the Chest cannot be run. This “restriction” has its reason: it is impossible to run a virus and infect the rest of the computer or the other files in the Chest.
What was the name and location of the file detected?
There have been some problems with false positive detections with Adloader:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=20350.new
With an adware/spyware infection, I’d recommend running these programs, if you don’t have them already:
a-Squared free:
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
Ad-Aware:
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
Spybot Search & Destroy: