--when scanner comes on screen, firstly check the virus chest - reply post anything in there to this thread
I went to check the virus chest. Under infections 0, I clicked on each button on left all said 0 except the last one-All chest files. I don’t see any way to copy the info in there to post in here.
Is there anything in that section that needs to be posted here. If so, can you explain how to copy it to post it in here?
I’m going to continue with the boot scan. Also is there a link to HJT
that I can use to get to that scan?
To run boot scan ----set thorough---check archive---select move to chest ---check allow move
Another question:I don’t see a place to select move to chest or allow move. The top of the radio pops up where you choose thorough & archives but I don’t see the other choices. Where do I find them?
I’ll wait to hear from you before I run the boot scan.
I really do wish Alwil would get rid of this All Chest Files collation of the three sections:
The only area you should be interested in is the Infected Files section, this is where the files detected by avast and selected by you to move to the chest are placed.- The User Files section is where the user can add files they suspect of being malware but not detected by avast.- The System Files section is where avast keeps back-up copies of important system files in case the original becomes infected (leave them alone).- The All Chest Files is a collation of the three sections.
Advanced option of the scheduling of the boot-time scan should allow for sending to the chest. Personally I prefer to know what is going on in my system so I don’t advise automating the actions on detection. That means the boot-time scan is interactive upon detection.
You can perhaps follow DavidR’s advice and dont run - select move to chest - and - allow delete or move.
You need to select schedule boot-time scan from the menu at the top left corner of the scanner and follow directions. If you want, you can watch the scan through and choose what to do if and when prompted.
Last night I shutdown my computer. I thought I had closed down the
Avast Scanner thing that looks like a radio because I was waiting to find out how to set “move to virus chest etc”. But today when I turned on the computer it immediately started scanning w/o going to the desktop or anything. I couldn’t find a way to stop it so I let it run.
It scanned for about 4 hours. It had stopped before I came in to check it after 4 hours so I followed the directions someone on here gave me before to get the report. This is what it said:
07/17/2009 15:29
Scan of all local drives
Number of searched folders: 6548
Number of tested files: 496030
Number of infected files: 0
I asked about a link to HJT to do one of those scans but I haven’t gotten an answer.
mkis said something about posting a single reply or something like that which I’m not sure what he means.
Can someone please give me a link to HJT to scan my comp?
Sorry I was out working yesterday and didn’t read your first reply. You checked your virus chest so that was good and it came up empty of infected files which was even better. The three files in the System Files section of the chest are needed by default so that is all good as well.
See here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=43668.0
Learning how to run a boot scan is essential knowledge to using the avast on demand scanner.
In the steps I outlined above you were offered various options under Schedule Boot-Time scan.
But firstly you need to find the actual option to Schedule - important to find how to get to this option for anyone who is new to avast. I have outlined above how to find the option in the menu list of the avast (radio) scanner, found in Start avast! Antivirus. If the scanner is skinless (that is, no radio body), the Schedule option is found under Tools.
Everyone needs to know how to run a boot scan
I cleaned out off hard disk a mass of common viruses yesterday using only avast boot scan and mbam. The disk is okay now. Once clean, then I did some work tidying up the drives.
Luckily this disk had not got to the point where it was infested.
When running a bootscan I usually choose to check the Archive box and to run a Thorough scan.
I also usually set Advanced Options.
My advanced options are usually Move infected files to chest / Allow delete or move.
I did this yesterday and all files sent to the chest were malware and were infected.
But as has been pointed out, it may be possible that a needed file could be accidently sent to the chest by allowing these Advanced Options to be automated. For this reason, you may wish to watch the process through and make your own decisions if and when prompted by the boot scan,
You set these choices under the Advanced Options selection.
Everyone should also learn how to select options available through the Schedule boot-time scan.
It doesn’t take too much time to look these options over, and work out a procedure for yourself.
Once all choices under Schedule boot-time scan have been made, you need to Restart the computer (or at the next time the computer starts), then the boot scan will run.
If I can find a good link outlining usage of avast on demand scanner, I will post it here under an Edit.
Your post came through just before mine so I didn’t see it until now.
You did well! That was the boot scan that ran and you came up clean. I am guessing that your computer is running much better now as you are very likely virus free.
I will return here in a minute with an Edit on how to run a HJT scan.
mkis provided the link.
For my part I’ll just mention that once you install the program you should open it (and if in vista I would suggest to run it as administrator… right click on its shortcut icon and click on Run as Administrator) and select “Do a system scan and save to log file”.
When the scan is done a notepad will appear. Select its contents and copy paste them in your post. They might be a bit large so you will have to brake it down in two or three posts.
Hope this helps.
HI, here is the HJT scan report.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 5:00:52 PM, on 7/21/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP3 (6.00.2900.5512)
Boot mode: Normal
O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll <== Acrobat 7.0 is vulnerable and 9.1 is avalable
O4 - HKCU..\Run: [DriverCure] C:\Program Files\ParetoLogic\DriverCure\DriverCure.exe -scan <== ParetoLogic is not very well respected: http://hosts-file.net/default.asp?s=ParetoLogic <== FSA - sites engaged in the selling or distribution of bogus or fraudulent applications
Thanks for looking at my HJT scan report. Are you telling me I should remove those things…from the scan & do something with them? If so what do I do with them?
I’m sorry to sound dumb but when I was looking at the scan report & I copied it to send here. Then I wanted to shut down my comp. because we were getting some heavy duty thunderstorms & lightening. I didn’t know what to do with the scan report that had the check boxes in front of them. I clicked on Home but then I wasn’t able to get back to the check box page. Can you tell me how to get back to that page if I need it to make any changes you guys tell me to do, right? If there are things to do could you explain it explicitly…step by step. I don’t know what I’m doing & I don’t want to mess my comp up because I make a mistake or guess what the next step should be. Thanks so much. I really appreciate all your help
I really need to get this PC straightened out because I use a pda & I use this comp. to sync it to & I’m having some problems with it & need to use this pc to get it working right. I haven’t been able to sync it for almost 2 months & I need to do it soon.
I uninstalled all the Adobe programs. I would like to understand why I uninstalled them? Are there virus’s in them? Or are they not good programs to have on your comp.? I recently went on a website-I can’t remember which-but to use it I had to have it on my comp.
I could not find Drive Cure in the list of programs to uninstall. Same question about this prog.? I found that on Microsoft’s website & I ran it & it seemed to help some things like my printer.
I did install IE8 but I wondered why? I use Firefox. The only time I use IE is when I go on Microsoft’s website because you have to.
I’m wondering can someone tell me if there is a program to substitute
for Adobe Flash? There are so many things I can’t use because they won’t work without it.
No one answered my question about why I had to remove all Adobe products. Can someone tell me? Would it be OK to just use Adobe Flash & not the others?
I have one more question. When I login to this site it asks me how long I want to stay logged in & I always click on Always but every time I come back I still have to log in anyway. Why is that?
YoKenny is telling you to do is bring your computer up to standard so that you can keep it safe and use it on the internet. To operate the computer safely over a period of time in that state you need be an expert
You can do it. It is possible. I think.
But too much a handful for a newbie desperately needing help
You are better off with up to date versions of Adobe. If you want Adobe then IE8 is a good option. The HjT scan is needless. I didn’t know the state of your programs. You don’t seem to know what you do are doing but you dont appear to have messed up your computer. I can’t imagine that Firefox would run troublefree with IE6 but I could be wrong. You could try it out and reply post a report here.
I’ve used Adobe Flash and not the others. It’s okay. Flash does what its supposed to do. If you’ve got kids and they play games, you need Shockwave as well. Students use Reader.
Lost on your final post. You really should take a screenshot of these kinds of interruptions. I use MWSnap, whic is a great little program for capturing what you see on your screen, and saving that view as a graphic image like a GIF or JPEG file.
Thanks for your reply. I don’t use either of the cleaner programs you mentioned. Is there a setting on the computer that tells it not to save the cookies when you get on a website. If there is can you tell me how to change it?
I know when I ran the Avast scan I told it to remove the cookies but I don’t know if I might have set something to not save them-I don’t understand the tech words & maybe I said to do that-not knowing what it meant.
Whenever I get on here it tells me in red the msg about there being so many posts while I was reading…it’s actually while I am not on this website.
I don’t know how to do a screen shot & save it to jpg etc.
