i have avast security, and when i was downloading an item, bells and whistles went of from avast telling me of a trojan and advising to move to chest which i did and it just kept repeating and i kept deleting or moving to chest could not remove it, so i shut the computer down, then after a while restarted the computer,then avast advised memory infected to run a deep scan.As i am watching the scan it was deleting programs which i know are not infected, i shut down avast and ran superantispyware which got rid of a lot of infections, my pc seems to be running fine now, but my question is can a security company get infected, and if so whats the proper procedure to handle the situation, i have windows vista premium 32-bit thank you.
Security program infected
- Thread starter patch41
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Hello Patch, I dont know if this is what happened in your case but it might be worth a look
*Bulletin* for AVAST users - Windows 7 Forums
*Bulletin* for AVAST users - Windows 7 Forums
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Hewlett Packard, compaq presario CQ60-305AU
- CPU
- AMD Athlon QI-46 2.1 Ghz
- Motherboard
- Wistron 303C
- Memory
- 2048 Mb DDR2 SD Ram
- Graphics card(s)
- NVidea GE Go Force 8200M G / 256Mb dedicated grapics memory
- Sound Card
- MCP78S NVidea High definition
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 15.6" High Definition Brightview Widescreen
- Screen Resolution
- 1336x768
- Hard Drives
- Toshiba MK2555GSX ATA
- Mouse
- Synaptics PS2/Touchpad
thanks mitchell for the reply, thats exactly what it sounds like, false positives i hope avast gets it straightened out, because if i would have left avast to run its course it would have cleaned my files out, tipped the scales...patch41