Trojan detected, can't move to chest - help please?

Viruses and worms
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Hi,
I hope someone can help. I’ve looked back through for my particular problem but can’t find a reference.

I have been doing a virus scan and detected a trojan in my C drive. Malware name is Win32:Small-EZD. When I try to send it to the chest, I am told there is not enough room. I know there is plenty of disk space, so can anyone help me with what the problem might be please?

The file name is: C:\hiberfil.sys. I am running XP Office Professional.

Thanks

Louise

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Hi Louiser,

hiberfil.sys is your computer’s memory written to the HC when you hibernate the computer. It’s size is the same as you computer memory’s, i.e. large: 512 or 1024 MB. It is excluded from a normal scan but is scanned during a boot time scan. Virus detections in hiberfil.sys are often false positives, and anyway, the file is not reloaded into memory after a normal boot, and will be overwritten the next time you hibernate the computer.

It is safe to ignore any detections in hiberfil.sys