Win32 Trojan-Gen infected steam files?

Viruses and worms
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Scanned last night and was horrified that avast detected 3 viruses in the steam folder, the files that it says are infected are appoverlay.dll, steamclient.dll, steamservice.dll and steamservice.dll.1347533359.

It says they are all Win32 trojan-gen, after searching these forums and a few others it seems they are having this problem as well, i do nothing but go on games and maybe Youtube on this computer so i’m pretty sure they may be false positives.

They are in the virus chest and i have sent them to the virus lab, their original locations are

C:/Program Files (x86)/steam
C:/Program Files (x86)/steam
C:/Program Files (x86)/steam/bin
C:/Program Files (x86)/steam/old

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yes…happend a couple of times before, and i guess the lab are working to correct it as we speak

also reported here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=106744.0

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Thanks for the quick reply, my mind is at rest :slight_smile:

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Hi. I have the same problem. Thanks for the info but what do I do now.

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wait for avast lab to fix

have you run a manuall update…does avast still detect it ?

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I scanned the morning after and found another steam file it says is infected, and i also did a boot time scan and a lot of files were corrupt, could i actually be infected?

I just did a full scan with Avast, Malwarebytes and super anti spyware and found nothing.

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send the files to avast! via email to virus@avast.com and put the subject as false positives and attach the files.

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HI again. Thanks Pondus for response. Have just returned from night shift and found avast auto updated and scanned: No threats found. All good with the world again. :smiley: