I scanned my computer with avast and it said I was infected with Win32Malware.gen it moved it to the chest but what do I do now?
I downloaded avast virus cleaner but it found nothing and I also disabled avast while this cleaner was doing it’s thing.
I am currently doing a boot sector scan and at this point it says :
File C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\GLBA3B.tmp\wise000.3bin Error 42146 {Installer archive is corrupted}
I am using my sons netbook to post this while my pc continues scanning.
What do I do after? I know the file that is infected with the malware was a game my son downloaded so its something that can be deleted.
I’m not very good with computers so please be patient and your help is very much appreciated : )
The warning just means that avast! can’t read the archive- I don’t think it’s anything to worry about.
I often get such warnings reading a clean system and just ignore them.
If you know the detected file is a game and not wanted, you can delete the file from the Chest (quarantine), although normally it’s best to leave detected files in the Chest for a month or so, just to be 100% sure they weren’t detected in error, which does happen from time to time, to all anti-virus programs.
Let the boot time scan finish.
If you want to double check, try one or more of the the usual free adware/spyware scanners.
Thank you very much for your reply, your help is much appreciated : )
Before I left for work this morning I did a standard scan and avast did not pick up anything but it was unable to read numerous files. I’m going to assume since there were no viruses that is a good thing Lil
At this point I am going to download malwarebytes and see what that tells me and I will keep you posted.
Thanks again
