Are memory blocks actual viruses or just false alarms? I have read other posts on the issue and am confused. I had a pop up virus ocurr when I clicked on a news story, I am assuming from an ad. I recognized it and hard shut down the computer. I ran a boot scan and found a Java virus. When my weekly scan ran a few days later I had a memory block that has never appeared before. I ran another boot time scan, that came up clean. Then I ran Malwarebytes and it was also clean. Advice?
Process 2552 hkcmd.exe memory block, severity high Threat Win32:Malware-gen
Yes this was a weekly scan, and yes it was customized to scan memory as well. However, I have not changed the settings of my custom scan since I started using Avast several months ago after receiving high recommendations from other users. It is a new “virus” that shows up. It has appeared in the last 2 weekly scans, but never before that.