virus in Linux

I have just scanned my Linux box. I’m running mint Linux(ubuntu 7.04).

It came up with a virus in my virtual machine. .vmx file.
I have windows xp pro running in virtual workstation.

The virus that came up is Saturday 14th-669. I don’t know much about viruses but I thought that this was eliminated with sp1 in windows xp?

Anyway how can I fix this. Short of eliminating my .vmx

I use another virus program for my windows xp pro system and it doesn’t show any viruses.
Why does Avast show a virus that I can’t seem to fix, I have sp2, yet my virus software for windows doesn’t show it. (Bitdefender)

Can anyone help me?

Ron

As a workaround, you can add these files to the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning) exclusion list.
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize. Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button… You can use wildcards like * and ?. But be carefull, you should ‘exclude’ that many files that let your system in danger. This link is a tutorial on how to help correct a virus detection that you believe to be false: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25009.msg204838#msg204838

Maybe it’s a false positive just that.

[i] This link is a tutorial on how to help correct a virus detection that you believe to be false: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25009.msg204838#msg204838[/i]

This link is very usfull just one problem. It’s not very likly that I will be uploading this file for anyone to check as it is a 17gb file. It’s a virtual machine file.

.vmdk not .vmx - Sorry I miss wrote it in the first post.

I can exclude it from my scans but would just as soon keep scaning the file. Just in case something else comes up.

Guess I just have to live with it for now.

thanks
Ron

Ron, they will correct the false positive if they can separate the correct detection from the wrong one. I don’t think it will be good to upload the 17Gb either.
It will be good to test, from time to time, if the wrong detection was corrected in virus database, removing the file from the exclusion list and scanning it.