virus found sometimes in memory

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Nobody can answer a simple question about the different avast scan types? Good grief. Very strange behaviour… start to answer and then leave the user hanging.

I’ll try again… why one type of memory scan seems to catch a virus but the other types do not, yet the recommendation is that they’re not really needed?

Thanks.

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Ok trying again…

Is there any reason why the different Avast scans report different results?

Should I be reporting this somewhere as a false positive? (if it is false, that is)

How to stop this from happening?

Thanks.

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The custom scan run’s deeper than the others so that is why DavidR previously advised you to turn off the memory scanning part of custom scan or you can stick to running the normal full scan which is sufficient.

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Ok thanks.

I guess the concensus is then that it’s a bug in Avast and the custom scan is finding a false positive, so I should just stop that part of the scan.

But what about the other user’s comment on Virustotal, that “Added to %user% startup when machine infeceted wiht Bredolab bot virus.” Is that just nonsense? How would I check that?

Thanks.