Whilst running Spybot today it suddenly stopped and Avast! popped up to say it had found a virus (Trojan). This surprised me at first, but then I guessed that is monitoring other processes and intervened when Spybot tried to examine a file. I selected “Move to Virus Chest” and then it straight away found another one. I moved that as well. Spybot didn’t want to continue, so I shut it down and then ran it again - no problems found. I then ran a thorough scan with Avast! and again nothing else found.
The two files were both in the C:\Documents & Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp folder and the only details are “Win32: Trojan-gen {Other}”. Both are file size 60928. I have been downloading quite a lot of video clips and jpeg’s lately, but I always put them in a dedicated folder and scan them first. I may have missed one though. I did recently get one of the pop-up’s warning me I might be infected and asking me to download a “fix”. As the various flashing boxes were rather contradictory I killed Firefox with Task Manager, rather than click the wrong one. There are no unusual processes running since this happened.
So my questions are: Does any of this make sense? Should I leave the files in the Chest for a few weeks and if no apparent problems delete them? Or should I forward them for further analysis?
Running XP2 Home, Avast! 4.8.1201, Spybot 1.5.2, & Adaware 2007.
Any advice would be most welcome.
Regards.