system files in the chest?

Howdy forum folks,

A friend of mine called to-day to have a look at his AV virus chest. I installed Avast on his Win XP SP2 comp. In the chest were three files, nothing as for virus description, they came from system 32,
the files were kernel32.dll, winsock.dll and wsock32.dll.
Anybody has a clue as why this files are held in the chest? They are going to stay there. I did a full scan on his comp with Avast: nothing found, scanned with Spyaudit nothing there. He says that after surfing upon closing down his computer, he has got the alert from Avast and then he did what I told him to do, put it in the chest. Anybody been there before, and won a T-shirt?

regards,

polonus

Polonus, I’m surprised you don’t know this yet…
I mean, they’re there for backup purposes to recover from a virus infection. If you click into the Chest folders you’ll see they are at the ‘System files’ folder and not into the ‘Infected files’ one.

Hello Tech,

Well we will never forget it. It will be the first line out of my mouth. Thank you for putting me right here.

polonus

Living and learning, right?
Oh, sharing knowledge :wink: