Possible virus?

My computer has been running fine ever since I cleaned out my computer since my last visit. However I decied to run another scan today, and alot of files were detected, but they couldn’t be scanned.

I’m using windows xp

Here’s the file name:

C:\Documents and Settings\Ray\Local Settings\Temp_avast4_\unp54307871\brm840.gpd… file could not be scanned!

I’m not sure if that’s a virus, or not. Any help is greatly appreciated

All av-apllications can not scan password protected files since they don’t know the password.

The file you mention is a temporary file. You can safely delete it. In fact, you can safely delete everything in C:\Documents and Settings\Ray\Local Settings\Temp

The file is put there by Avast, likely during a scan. I’m not sure but unp54307871 looks like a folder Avast is using/has used when scanning a archive. The UNP could mean unpacked. But as I said, I’m not sure about that.

I’m sure that if I am wrong about this, someone will jump in and tab me on the fingers :wink:

yeah I was wondering why it would have a virus in it’s own folder heh. knock on wood

The most likely candidate for GPD is:
GPD = WINXP SYSTEM32 SPOOL DRIVER file

So it’s probably not malicious…

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