So yesterday (2/21/2017) I was surfing the internet and all of sudden there is this popup from avast and it says my computer is being infected by vbs: malware gen. So as usual I did a boot time scan and it ended up all my personal photos for the past 6 months. To make sure that my laptop is safe i run the antivirus again and it showed more files have been infected by this virus. I did a search online for this virus and got some info and again it ended up deleting a lots of files more than 1500.
Today(2/22/2017) morning I was searching for articles where anyone was facing this same problem and here it is the vbs: malware was avast false reports. Great good work Avast I lost most of my pictures to which I will never ever have access to. Again very good work.
A quick Avast scan detected many more such threats including “Need for Speed High Stakes” saved files and the severity was “high” (and mind you the program hasn’t been used on the computer for a very long time already). I told Avast to “do nothing” on these files.
… or did you not use this option :-X
