Hi. I was compressing my emails and then deleting them with CyberScrub, the warning virus noise started,
telling me a virus had been found as per notice below
Sign of “Win32:Hupigon-AFM [trj]” has been found in “C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-1177238915-1957994488-839522115-1004\Dc64.bak” file.
I only allow friends and family emails and Avast has never warned of a problem when importing through Mailwasher. All rubbish mail is collected on my Yahoo server and put into the bulk folder which I log onto and delete them all. Is this a false positive please
Sorry I think I have posted this in the wrong place
Even some nice people don’t practice safe hex, and if one of them got a trojan
then it would likely come to you. Its in the recycle bin anyway, so clear the bin
and be happy. It may or maynot be a false positive however my bet would be
not.
Thanks for reply Styx, but are you saying that some of my family and friends could be contaminated. Does that not mean if they send me an email that is contaminated Avast won’t pick it up when it scans incoming emails, if so what is the point of having an Antivirus product that will not warn me on receiving it. If it did I would have contacted them and told them they have a problem and deleted it before it could release anything onto my computer. No other scanner I have reported I had a problem, which includes A-squared, SpyBot, SuperAntispyware and MalwareBytes.
For all we know there could have been an update to avast between the deletion and the detection.
Since its in the Trash Bin - Empty it and contact whoever sent you the email as a just in case. It
could be some sort of false positive, maybe not.
You could also submit the file to Avast for testing.