I’ve got a problem with WIN32:Kryptik-EWK which seems to have a high severity. I cannot seem to locate much information about it using Google, and the virus scanner has “Apply” greyed out to all options I can choose (such as virus chest, delete, repair).
I don’t remember installing anything lately that could have done that. I run scans every 24 hours, so it must have been over the last 27 hours that I got the virus (it scans at 2am).
There doesn’t seem to be an option to do anything about these viruses. What exactly can I do?
did you do a custom scan…and selected “scan memory” ?
do not change the scan settings if you do not know the result… DO NOT use the “scan memory” setting as it will give some veird results
this forum have hundreds of cases if you search
use the default quick/full scan with default scan settings
and since these are not actual files…there is nothing that can be moved to chest…so apply button is grey
From what was detected, the entire list of malware were processes.
A process can only run in memory, so when the system is shut down due to a power outage or a normal shutdown, everything that is running in memory is lost also. A reboot will have the same result or impact.
That is why memory is sometimes described as volatile in nature, whereas data on the hard drive is not.
As Pondus says, scan memory will give you strange results, as Avast! can see and detect malware signatures of other resident scanners operating in real time. You have a second a/v running as resident? Or an antispyware program running in real-time?
