Need Help - Trojan XP

Viruses and worms
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Virus under disguise as “Personal Antivirus”

This I believe, as I researched is a Trojan and pulling more into it. I have and trust Avast Personal Antivirus on all of my personal computers.

I did a complete search on the HP Slimline (media center xp) the infected one, and it wasn’t able to pick up anything.

I appreciate any help anyone can offer.

I’ve gone through, searched the computer and deleted the “main” pav.exe file for the virus, and virus related files, but the computer is still infected.

Thanks,

chase.

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I suggest Malwarebyte’s Antimalware or SuperAntiSpyware Free

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It is a fake alert rogue program. Basically it gives fake security alerts, is this what the symptoms are ?

If so it isn’t actually a virus, just tries to trick you into visiting a site, run a scan, either of which could really infect you. Or it is used as a means to extort money to supposedly clean your system, as an aside giving them your credid card details to pay could also leave you open to fraud.

There are however, a few hits that this is a legit file, http://www.systemlookup.com/Startup/9237-PAV_EXE.html, so how do you know this is a virus ?

Deletion isn’t really a good first option (you have none left), ‘first do no harm’ don’t delete, send virus to the chest (user files section) and investigate.

If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it and report the findings (it should product a log file).

Don’t worry about reported tracking cookies they are a minor issue and not one of securty, allow SAS to deal with them though. - See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.