After running the scans yesterday and posting the logs found in reply #7 I wanted to know if those logs were okay and that I had got rid of the problem.
Safe Surfs reply #9 suggested that my device was still infected with malware and that I shouldn’t use it until hearing from yourself. So I waited until you posted and then did as you suggested.
At this time the only problem I seem to be having is as soon as I log on I get a Avast Security Reccomendation. First it was NetWaiting, which I got rid of, and currently it is for RealPlayer; please see attachment.
I guess I’m looking for reassurance that the logs I have posted do not indicate a malware issue on my device and that it is safe for me to continue to use.
Can you suggest why I should be receiving these security reccomendations?
That is the autosandbox in action, the file system shield (FSS) does scan it and if a file doesn’t meet a number of checks like, it isn’t digitally signed, or is in a strange location or in the emulation part of the FSS does something that might be considered suspicious. Then it would be handed off to the autosandbox, where the user can decide on the action to take.
Bear in mind that the FSS hasn’t alerted, which is a good thing, but I’m surprised realplay.exe isn’t digitally signed as it is such a known product.
So if you know you installed realplayer, you can choose to run it normally and check the option to remember your decision for this program, etc.
This is somewhat different to the NetWaiting before as a) you knew nothing about it and have never had a dial-up connection, so why it was on your system was somewhat of a mystery.