Help virus alert by avast!!!

Viruses and worms
1

oh please help!!! Avast antivirus has found a virus in system restore, what do i do?!!?!?!?!?!?!

2

I suggest:

  1. Disable System Restore and reenable it after step 3.
  2. Clean your temporary files.
  3. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast with archive scanning turned on.
  4. Use SUPERantispyware and/or Spyware Terminator to scan for spywares and trojans. If any infection is detected, better and safer is send the file to Quarantine than to simple delete than.
  5. Test your machine with anti-rootkit applications. I suggest AVG or Trend Micro RootkitBuster.
  6. Make a HijackThis log to post here or, better, submit the RunScanner log to to on-line analysis.
  7. Immunize your system with SpywareBlaster or Windows Advanced Care.
  8. Check if you have insecure applications with Secunia Software Inspector.
3

Well, I used to have a few trojans adware, but i’ve never detected any suspecous activity…And people tell me these steps:
1.Turn off system restore
2.reboot
3.turn back on
4.run scan with AV

4

Good steps… I suggested them too… just a few others :wink:

5

well now i know what’s been causing my computer to shut down right after turning on ;D

6

And then? What was it?

7

Some kind of virus

8

A little more information about said virus would help us and many others. Can you five more info?