Last night, whilst burning some mp3s, probably downloaded from some nefarious source, to cd for my wife, I got a “rootkit detected” alert from avast. After the burn completed I allowed the removal and did a boot time scan which found nothing new.
I can’t find any logs with information about the detected rootkits though, so don’t know if they were associated with those mp3s or not, which passed the scan ok.
Any way I can investigate the rootkit alert to find out its origin?
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welcome to the forum. you could check the logs for the shields of avast.
If I’m right it should be open up avast interface- hit real time protection. go the file system shield hit the button check either traffic log or protection log. there it should be information witch you seek.
good luck.
Nothing at all in the shield log. Can’t find a protection “log”, only the protection history, which doesn’t show anything either.
I suggest you schedule a boot time scanning.
C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\report\aswBoot.txt is the report file.