How to confirm or disprove serious Viurs/Hack

Viruses and worms
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I dual boot and got an apparent virus on BOTH machines. I say apparent because i did not select remove but i selected “ignore” since i thought it was a false posative but avast said it needs to shutdown to finish the procedure. When i rebooted i did full scans it wasn’t there any more on BOTH machines nor was there ANY record of it in the virus vault (is there a history page where i can get infor on it?). So i dont know if its a FP or there is a serious hardware based securty issue that has affect both operating systems. So is there a way to test for BIOS hack, MBR virus or motherboard being compromised? I reformatted my first operating system, then last week noticed the same or simular rootkit detection in the otehr operating system; and strangly started getting a “you dont have admin right to do the selected operation” when simply trying to save a file to a folder. I have done full scans with Avast, Malwerbytes, ANVI smart defender. The rootkit in question was CPUZ, i think it had 123 at the end of it may have been a different root kit / false posative from the otehr operating system. I don’t have CPUZ installed

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see the guide above your post http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

ANVI smart defender
see the [b]pros[/b] and [b]cons[/b] in this article http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405313,00.asp
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Hi, with respect i did these scans and procedures on the first operating system and found nothing so im more after a way to test for hardware virus/bios hack etc

Also info about the CPUZ rooktkit that avast found but has no disapeared

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how do you know nothing was found…are you trained in the use of OTL/OTS
are you able to interpret the aswMBR and OTL logs ?

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I have yet to see a Hardware/BIOS hack in real life - All I have seen is proof of concept.

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I mean last time i posted the results to you guys and you said everything was fine. What i’m asking for is a why to find out what avast detects the “CPUZ rootkit”, where it went and if it was a FP and to find the chances of a hardware based infection

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So is there a way to find out what that CPUZ root kit was, where it went and if it was a FP? Thanks

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To avoid guesswork…i think the malware specialist would need
a file that can be analyzed…like at virustotal
a computer with symptoms…
Logs to look at…

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hi, so whewre are the logs fo avast or the history file so i can see some info about the “CPUZ123” item it “found”. Thanks

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http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html