Avast4’s resident just came up with a Trojan/virus in a Temp file in IE6 of Win98.
Since it’s in a temp file, I’m not to worried since I can delete the whole thing–except I will have to open it to get at it if there are files being used by the system in that particular folder.
Avast, did not tell me it had found a virus, other than seeing very briefly as it showed the scanning files, that a virus had been found. --Is there a setting that I can enable that will popup and let me know when a virus has been found. Had I looked away from the screen for a second, I would have missed it.
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The “Avast On Access Scanner” lists the virus (it also appears to have stopped scanning when it found it) but gives me no options as to what to do.
I’ve read all the FAQs, lots of forum topics, --but can’t get a handle on how to use Avast4 to clean, delete, repair a file, now that a virus has been found.
Questions then on resident virus checking:
When a virus is found, do I have to close out what I am doing, go and try to find the infected file and delete it manually (no repair option seems to be available)? --This seems risky since some can run and hide as you try to catch them, especially if they have changed the registry.
How do I get Avast to give me some sort of message that a virus has been found?
Is there a way to at least quarantine the virus so I can get to it later?
I’m just totally lost coming from McAfee, Pandasoft, etc.
If you can answer here or point me to a FAQ, that would be very helpful.
Thank you.