where is the virus chest? and can I get into it? I did a boot scan today and with all the options on what to do with the results, I finally chose the chest. Can it be opened, can the results in there be repaired? thanks for help and advice.
where is the virus chest?::).....have you opened avast and clicked the maintenace tab on left side ?
Clean, Quarantine, or Delete?
http://antivirus.about.com/b/2007/03/11/clean-quarantine-or-delete.htm
OBS: why did you do a boot scan ?
Thanks, found it,duh. I did a boot scan because Avast recommended I do so. It took several hours and had a veeeeeeerrrrrrry long list of problems , most of them said ‘infected by Java’. I really didn’t know what to pick to deal with them. Should I have picked ‘repair’? k65
Nope…and if you read the link i posted above, there is some info on what can be repaired an not
most of them said 'infected by Java'.do you have latest java update ?
secunia online scanner wil check for outdated programs that are a security risk
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/
I don’t know if java has been updated.
thanks for the article, helpful.
See:
http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
Java installed (1.7.0_02)