A friend went on my laptop and went to a site that I felt was a bit dodgy. I told them to close it and I did a full scan with Avast Free and it brought up about 5 different Win 32 Evo-Gen files in my C:\Windows\Temp folder, all with a name starting with ‘WAX’ (eg. WAXA3AC.tmp)
Avast Quarantined them and I got a bit paranoid and tried a load of scanners such as MBAM, Stinger, Emisoft & Hitman
After doing these for a day or two, I felt that my laptop was fine, but saw an offer for Avast Internet Security, so I bought that…
So, everything seemed fine, but I did a full scan this morning just to make sure and it finds another ‘WAX’ file in my temp folder (WAXA3AC.tmp)
Is this likely to be a false positive temp file or is there something wrong?
Any help is greatly appreciated, I am just getting myself a little worried that my new laptop might have a virus already…
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[*]Press Scan button.
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System appears to be fine, it was a little weird on the restart after FRST. When it came to logging back into windows, it got stuck on my login page after entering the details. I had to manually shut off the laptop and start again, but it worked after that…
Everything was a little slow to load at first, I imagine due to all of the temp folders and such being gone, but nothing unusual now except of course some preference being missing like things pinned to the explorer icon on the task bar…
Is it common to get false positives like this in the temp folder or do you think this was actually a virus that has just been taken care of?
I only ask as I’m worried it will come up in another full scan and I won’t know if it’s a recurring problem or just normal…
Yes, everything in temp folder is kinda suspicious, it is not the place for something to works from, this folder is only used for temporary jobs, not for something to work from here.
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Click Run button and wait a few seconds for the programme completes his work.
At this point all the tools we used here should be gone. Tool will create an report for you (C:[b]DelFix.txt[/b])
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Tool deletes old system restore points and create a fresh system restore point after cleaning.
