This is the second time I have seen this message. I forgot to check the data base version the first time but this time I checked and the data base version matches the update message version ??? I will sure let you know if the message pops up again.
Please check your system time and date.
As an observation, you have two other threads running, neither of which appear to have been given “closure”.
I suggest you run HijackThis (as recommended by JTaylor here and post the log in your reply.
I also strongly recommend getting a firewall and configuring it so that the other computers on your home network can not communicate with yours, except for the applications you specify, such as internet connection. You would only need access to the router in this case, or to the computer acting as the server.
Thank you.
I had checked dates and left the calender in next November.
I am now looking for the old posts I made. I may have reported a Trojan, a recent, August 3rd It may have been found on line, MV400.Gen or something like that, and I had to reformat the computer.
TrendMicro Housecall usually finds a Trojan avast does not find and if TrendMicro Housecall on line has a problem loading during an on line housecall scan attempt it usually means there is a Trojan in the computer. Even an Avast boot scan did not find that Trojan or the previous Trojan Housecall found.
I will try to find exactly which both of them were but I think I can only find the MV400.gen thing because the other one was some months ago, and I will get back to you.
***Thank you for avast free Home Edition***
It was TROJ_Gen.8V400 and it was in a download which I put into a downloads folder on a separate partition on the one hard drive. It was still there after the reformat and then TrendMicro Housecall found it and removed it.
Ah, I see the http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=37436.msg313381#msg313381 is a link to my post a while ago. I had reinstalled the operating system after then.
Long time since I’ve used Housecall. Found (back then) that there were far too many false positives.
Any time a malware is flagged with the appendix “gen” it is worthy of further investigation.
So I’m not saying the file TM found was such a beast, only that it may have been. That it was still there following a reformat suggests so, or that maybe it was actually spread by another computer on the home network. There aren’t many malwares I know of (admittedly I’m no expert) that can survive a reformat. Without the original file/path, we will never know.
Firewall/isolate yourself from the other computers= a good idea. Strongly recommend. Without it you are pretty much at the mercy of the other users web behaviour.
So, regarding the update issue, has resetting the Windows time/date fixed that?