Hi, i am mainly posting this since I freak out about everything and was really worried. The other night was dling stuff and I trusted stuff blah blah blah anyways I was worried so I schedualed a boot scan with avast. When I saw that 2 things were infected with win32: Somoto-F. I was hoping everything got cleared up when the scan found the stuff I told it to delete the stuff. I guess I’m really paranoided but I just wanted to get some feebback that everything is good since this computer has alot that I could lose on it.
Never delete always put things in the virus chest.
Delete = no recourse
Virus Chest = putting things in a safe place with the chance to recover if it’s a false positive.
well thanks for the tip I will def start doing that but anybody know what that file was? Like i said main reasons why I posted it was I thought it was like a serious risk to my computer
Since you chose to delete the file, it’s impossible to give you further information.
Without the file name and location it isn’t possible to even speculate ?
Was there a PUP suffix in the detection ?
e.g. win32:somoto-F [pup] as this Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) may or may not be as serious as you might think. PUPs can be tools/programs which can be used for good or evil, depending who installed it, etc. to determine why it might be considered a PUP we would need the information asked for.
the file was probably betterinstaller.exe. some toolbar crap from somoto
if you google these you find lots of info
Somoto BetterInstaller
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/adware-and-puas/Somoto%20BetterInstaller/detailed-analysis.aspx