HELP! Avast says I have the Win32:Trojan-gen worm! Is this a false positive?

Viruses and worms
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Hi. I am using CursorMania and Smiley Central (http://www.smileycentral.com and http://www.cursormania.com). I downloaded them over a month ago. Everything was going fine until two days ago when suddenly, Avast is telling me that there is a Virus/Worm. From what I can tell, it is called Win32:Trojan-gen. From what I’ve been able to learn online, I have been told that there is a glitch in the Avast software that makes this error appear. I am running Avast Home Edition 4.7 and have Windows XP. VPS is 000738-1 (5-03-2007). My computer is an IBM Compatible, Intel Celeron processor, 734 MHz, 384 MB of RAM. I have Windows Firewall and use DSL to connect to the internet. E-mail client is Mozilla Thunderbird. I have tried to download and install the programs again, but when I do, I get an error saying that there is a worm in F3HTMLMU.DLL called Win32:Trojan-gen. When I get the error, my Smileys and Cursors are disabled, but the rest of the tool bar is in tact and the F3HTMLMU.DLL file is deleted. Please please please HELP ME! This seems very odd to me because it just appeared a day or so ago.

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you soon regarding this matter.

Thanks!

Traci

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Hi FirstOfMay,

Have a look in Start>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs for the following and remove if found:

FunWeb
MyWebSearch

Also have a look for any programs you do not recognise and check on Google. If you find a report that the program is adware/spyware, remove it.

http://research.sunbelt-software.com/threatdisplay.aspx?name=FunWebProducts&threatid=14912

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2003/1208web2.html

Then run scans with these free adware/spyware scanners:

AVG Anti-Spyware (Requires Win2k/XP)

a-Squared Free

Ad-Aware

Spybot Search & Destroy

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Thank you, but I already knew all of this. Getting rid of the virus isn’t my problem. I can get rid of it just fine. Unfortunately, when I get rid of the virus, I also lose my .dll file. My concern was that I thought it might be a false positive. I have run spyware/adware programs and it’s not either of those. So it is a virus. And I’d like to keep the program. I know there are programs that let you fix dll errors, but I don’t know which one to trust. Until I find out which dll repair program is the best one to use (Know of a good one?), I have unchecked Scan Dynamic Libraries on Load in the Standard Shield section

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Its neither a false positive nor a dll error. Its just bad stuff

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/uninstall/869/My-Web-Search-Cursor-Mania.html

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/uninstall/879/My-Web-Search-Smiley-Central.html