Today i picked the trojan Win32:Mhtpo-23[Trj] up from the internet.
Normaly Avast (i use the free version of Avast4Home) can’t do anything with it, at the moment you pick it up.
I tried to let Avast move it to a special folder i use to store all virusses i pick up, that didn’t work.
Than i let Avast do a scan on reboot, and now the weird part happened, it seems the virus was ahead of Avast and dissabled it, after the Desktop came up, i got a warning from Avast that the virus was present. At that moment i decided to open Zonealarm (old one version 2.6.362) to go block IE and Outlook. Zonealarm went unresponsive…
At that moment Avast got shut down completely, the icon in the tray disapeared.
Neither could i open an explorer to go look in the system, so all together everything seemed blocked, all that time my hardrive sounded it was real buzy.
Than i decided to reboot the system and manually replace the virus under DOS (my normal OS btw is Win2000 Pro) to the folder i use to store virusses (located on my D drive).
That part went ok, this is btw the reason i don’t use NTFS, so you still have access to your hardrive in cases like this After i rebooted again there was no warning anymore (as i write this i did not yet do a complete systemscan to be sure).
I tried to fill in the virusreport, but i did so unsuccesfull, theres to much options missing in the questions , also theres no room for personal notes, maybe a smart thing to add that to the form !
Me telling this, is of course the fact that during boot Avast was uncapable of intercepting and removing the virus, certainly a first timer for me. I do collect virusses myself for various reasons (lol just click on a bunch of porn links and they popup by the hundreds). So i am used to the fact my system is infected during the time i collect or store them.
All together i am very satisfied about Avast, its a good and solid programm, but i do wonder now why it didn’'t intercept it.
As said i stored the virus on my system, so if Avast want’s so, i can sent it, if you tell me where, how and what.
Info:
OS: Win2000Pro
Avast4Home: update version of course
Zonealarm: 2.6.362
Virus: Win32:Mhtpo-23
Location: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\History
Infected file: Index.dat
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Diehard