I have been running Avast IS and Malwarebytes Pro together for a long time and everything has seemed to work well together.
Today I did a manual scan with SuperAntispyware (free) and after the scan was asked to restart, which I did. Immediately following restart I opened my Windows Mail account and had opened an email when Avast popped up with a warning box telling me it had detected a rootkit. I have attached a screenshot of this pop up window. Is this just a false positive?
Hi it did the same to me this morning,it also found firefox to be a virus. firefox has since updated and it seems to leave this version alone.I am hoping its a FP. as I went into panic mode.
Running the same programs , and ran full scans with both earlier this morning and nothing like what you have came up on my rig .
Stereo55 You might want to change your profile to hide your email from showing.
Marc – Thanks. Where does it show up? How do I change it. I went to the forum profile and I couldn’t see where anything would indicate I had my email address showing. Help please.
Go to profile, modify profile,uncheck allow users to contact me
I don’t know if I’ve got it fixed still. Where are you seeing my email address?
Under Profile, Account Settings – It asked for my correct email address and I had put that in (which I have now deleted) – then below that you had to check a box if you wanted to allow users to email you, but I did not have that box checked.
If anyone out there is checking this post, I still need some expert help with this business of Avast recognising SVC: MBAM Rootkit.