many viruses - no avast reaction

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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and again - avast pro installed, no reaction. After any online scanner - results:

http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/7177/beztytu322u0ch.png

why avast not secure against this viruses? maybe I should change default settings?

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:slight_smile: Hi :

 Your "Report" does not look like "viruses" to me and
 perhaps you should be using other good and FREE 
 programs, like Ewido and/or A-Squared !? Do you have
 an antiSPYWARE program on your computer ? If yes,
 which one(s) ?
 And even though this is your 10th Post on this forum,
 ALWAYS mention the name of the Operating System .
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Sorry, I forgot. Now it was NT 4.0 (I know - very old system, but it works :))
I will try any antiSpyWare.

But before it was Win98 and avast know this trojan because when I do “run avast”, it check memory and found a trojan. But it was too late and question is, why it didn’t protect PC earlier.

(sorry for my english)

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  1. Was the virus database updated at that time?
  2. Which is your sensitivity level on Standard Shield?
  3. Did you ever disable avast in any procedure in the past?
  4. Well, nothing is perfect… layered defense (with another antispyware and antitrojan, and a firewall) is a ‘way to go’ 8)
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ad. 1 - yes, always fully updated
ad. 2 - normal (as I remember, when it was set “high”, Thunderbird worked very slow)
ad. 3 - i don’t think so

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Do you know the full path of the infected files?
Right now, are you clean or still infected?

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:slight_smile: Hi Wiciu :

  Nowadays you need more than an antivirus program to
  provide protection ; I recommend you try the good and
  FREE program called "A-Squared Free" ( their Free 
  version ) available at www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free

  This program will likely detect and remove those "things"
  your "Report" said are on your computer .

  Do you have a "firewall" on your computer ?
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Layered protection is necessary in my opinion regardless of the AV. In addition to a-squared free, SuperAntiSpyware has a free version.
http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

Spysweeper has an online scan.
http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/

You can generally download a trial version of most anti-malware applications.

Jotti’s has links to some of the best online AV scanners. I like Bit Defender or Kaspersky. Both will be long scans.
http://virusscan.jotti.org/

I tend to think that if you go through those malware will be eliminated, but can’t be sure. Prevention through layering and safe surfing is the best thing.

If you install another AV, be sure and remove the current one prior to installing.

Regards,
Jerry

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Full path is on the screenshot I posted before.
I formatted this disk. Now I will try to install any anti-spyware soft but all of them I seen clean after infection - not in real time. Do You know any soft who has complex protection?

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For the future you can use the image tag so the image is loaded into the post from imageshack, that way it is available in the post without having to go to imageshack…

e.g. (the code tag is to stop it being active and actually loading.)


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