Need help on "false positives."

Viruses and worms
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HELP!

I just encountered the same problem that Jovy had with the “false positives” on:

virus: Win95:Matyas
c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\pav.sig

virus: Win32:Kuang2
c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ActiveScan\imscan.dll

virus: Win95:Matyas
c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ActiveScan\pav.sig

When they appeared during the scan, I had them put into the Virus Chest.

Are these safe to delete from the Chest or do I need to find some way to restore them?

Thanks for any help you might be able to give me!

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Hi and welcome

This topic is covered in the following thread.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=4764

Hopefully this should be help.

There is a large amount if information on the forums and it is all available to you using the search button at the top of each page.

A search on false positive returned 20 posts (including this one)

Hopefully you will only ever have to worry about false positives

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Thanks for the help DavidR.

At this point my brain is tired…after reading the information in the thread you so kindly posted, am I correct in thinking that it is ok to delete those 3 files and not worry about them anymore??

Sorry to be so dense today. I’m not always this way!! :wink:

Thanks again!

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Those are files from Panda On-Line antivirus,so you can safely delete them :slight_smile:

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Thanks, RejZoR! I really appreciate the fast reply!