Unsure of infection

Viruses and worms
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Hi

I recently performed a system reset of my laptop and re-installed Avast anti-virus 2015. When I did this I was asked to perform a ‘boot scan’ which detected a malware and moved it to the ‘chest’. I am now unsure whether this means i have a virus or did have a virus or need to do anything with the ‘malware in the ‘chest’’?!

I am keen to install an ssd in my laptop to improve performance but am reluctant to do this if there is still a problem lurking in my system. Any help from you would be greatly appreciated.

I have attached the requested files from the relevant scans from the “Logs to assist in cleaning malware” thread.

Yours hopefully

Jon Shipley

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What did avast detect? malware name given by avast?

Where was the file located, full file path and file name?

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Name - edsloader.exe location - c:\acer\empoweringtechnology\edatasecurity virus - Win32:Malware-gen
Name - unp205446490.tmp location - C:\Windows\Temp_avast_ virus - Win32:Malware-gen

Hope this is the relevant information you need

Thanks for the reply

Shippers

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hey the virus chest is a safe place where infected files will be stored, it will not damage your system to have infecteded files in the chest.

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The first one seems to be a FP on a acer file
Right click that file in chest … From the menu, send it to avast lab as possible false positive

Essexboy will check your logs when he is online later today

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System looks clean. Any problems ?

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no, none up to now!

Like i said in my original post i am wanting to install an ssd and wanted to make sure these files weren’t going to cause any problems when i come to clone my hard drive.

I’m guessing as long as they’re in the chest they shouldn’t interfere?

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They are both false positives, but will not be required to migrate to SSD