Win32 Trojan found

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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My special thanks to David and Frank for your patience and help through the first virus crisis I’ve experienced with Avast. Avast saved
me even with my inexperienced hand on the throttle and you two pulled me through. David, as far as the mess with the VirusTotal up-
loader, I think all that little download does is add a “Send to VT” in the pull-down menu. Their directions for its use are pretty sketchy
and actually it is not necessary. I’ve had a great learning experience!

I’ve created the folder in C and Modified Standard Shield as recommended so I will be ready if there is a next time. Considering my previous experiences with Norton, I absolutely rave about Avast. I would just say that new users should develop a game plan for when Avast does find a problem. Years ago I had a machine completely disabled by a virus (with Norton) and that makes research impossible.
Thanks again for a great product and great help.
Donna in AR

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Your welcome.

VT does get busy at times and there is also the option to send it by email and there is the VTuploader on that same email instruction page http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html. That must have been where you got the bit about vtuploader, which ads an entry to your context menu. Personally for the amount of times you are likely to use it, it isn’t worthwhile.

avast 4.8 has a self-protection module which should make things much more difficult for viruses to disable it.