Viruses Found

Viruses and worms
1

I just installed the home edition today and I got 2 siren alerts-2 viruses were found. I paniced and moved them both to the Avast default file. Should I delete these 2 viruses or do I need to take other steps?

I had previously used Norton Antivirus which did not pick up these 2 viruses. Does anyone know why it didn’t?

Sorry, I am a newbie at all of this.

Thanks a lot!

Debra
:-\

2

What viruses did Avast report? If your system still works fine it should be okay to delete them. Anyway they are harmless if they are in the Virus chest

3

Do you know why Norton Antivirus did not pick up these Trojan Horses? IS AVAST MORE THOROUGH THAN NORTON?

Thanks so much for your response!

I believe they were Trojan horses since “Tr” was in Parentheses after the file name.

I do have them in the chest so thank you for reassuring me that they are harmless there. ::slight_smile:

4

That is one of the generic naming of Avast. Without an expressive Virusname it is difficult to say, but Norton is not so “strong” in finding Backdoors/Trojans.

5

Dear dagranger,
send the file to us. In the chest, right-click the file and choose E-mail to Alwil software. To the “Additional info”, write that you want an info about it.

6

;)thanks, I emailed them.

Debra