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Avast 4.8 Home Edition

I have two questions:

(1) There are seven infected files transferred May, June, and July 2008, and five system files transferred July 2007 and September 2008 in my virus chest. What do I do with them?

(2) During my weekly scan yesterday I discovered two viruses which I moved to the chest. However, upon checking it, the files were not there. I then scanned with SuperAntiSpyware, which showed no viruses. So today I ran the Avast scan again and had five viruses:

C:\Program Files\Google\Installers\GoogleToolbarInstaller4.0.0.002.

C:\System Volume Information_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP283\A0015212.msi\Binary.ToolbarInstallerExe

C:\System Volume Information_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP283\A0015216.msi\Binary.ToolbarInstallerExe

C:\System Volume Information_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP284\A0015239.msi\Binary.ToolbarInstallerExe

C:\WINDOWS\Installer\78b9a.msi\Binary.ToolbarInstallerExe

I put all of them in the virus chest. But in the “Results of last scan” screen, under operation, there is this message: Error occurred during moving file to client. The operation is not supported for this type of archive."

What do I do now?

Thank you for your help.

Caryl

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Yes avast couldn’t extract the infected file from the .msi file.

We have just had a spate of these in the forums relating to this Binary.ToolbarInstallerExe detection so since they are inside an .msi file you may not be able to extract the suspect file to confirm the detection. I think we need some more info from avast on how to proceed on this.

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Thanks, David, for your reply. I will just wait and hope to hear from someone at Avast soon about this. I assume that these files will not hurt my computer now.

Do you have an answer to my first question about what to do with the files that are already in the chest?