Virus found..then lost

Viruses and worms
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I was running my newsgroup reader today when an Avast window popped up saying a virus was found, identifying it as “Win32:Swen” and giving the location which was a folder that stores files downloaded from the newsgroup. When I told Avast to delete it, a window popped up saying it couldn’t be located. I tried to get Avast to “repair” and “move to chest” with the same result. I went to the folder and there was no file there matching the file named by Avast (Q122248.exe). Can anyone tell me what’s going on?

Thanks,

Pgregory

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Hi,

do you use avast home or pro ?
if pro, maybe it was set to autodelete/clean ?

try avast’s cleaner:
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html
and manuyll check for suspicous system entries/changes
Infos on swen everywhere in the board or on all AV-sites, e.g. avast’S homepage