Hi,
I did a online virus-scan somewhere and got the messege that there was a virus in my Avast log file ‘warning’.
Correct or not, I took action and deleted the txt-file.
Later I tried to ‘repair’ Avast with a click…but I didn’t get a warning-file back.
Do I need to put a new warning-file where the old one was? If so, where can i get it?
Or can I make my own file by simply naming a text-file warning.txt?
Where? This is relevant…
Strange… it’s a txt file, sure it’s clean.
The warning was not generated by avast. So, repairing avast won’t bring a warning back…
No. The new avast log file will be created automatically.
If you use the correct folder, you can do that.
The log files are text files so I strongly doubt there was a virus in there so it is quite possible it was a false positive detection. The warning.log contains amongst other thins information about infections that avast found.
What was the on-line scanner you used and what was the malware it suggested it was ?
I would have thought it would have been regenerated and the file is C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\log\warning.log (default install location) not warning.txt
Thanks for the answers!
warning.log was the correct name, yes…
I will see what I can do when it comes to the information you ask for… I have the info on another computer. I did several online scans.
But the “virus-warning” was about some sort of “Trojan Downloader”. That’s for sure.
The fact that it was thought it was some form of trojan downloader (impossible in a text, non-executable file) would tend to support a false positive detection.