Wednesday, November 30, 2011

AVG caught and moved a trojan horse virus to the vault. What does this mean...?

These were the details:





"Object name""C:\System Volume Information\_restore{D53440E0-EEC6-4D7F-鈥?br>

"Detection name""Trojan horse Generic18.SMC"


"Object type";"file"


"SDK Type";"Core"


"Result";"Moved to Virus Vault"


"Action history";"Moved to Virus vault"





What does this mean and what should I do, if anything? My computer was acting slow today recently, so I did a scan. I did one a few days ago and nothing was detected. How do I know if there was any harm done?|||Mearns it did it's job, the Virus Vault is just a safe place for AVG to keep the trojan. You can eventually empty the vault if you wish.|||moved to vault means this file is in quarantine.the trojan horse is deactivated and removed to a separate location by avg i.e. the vault.


since it is in vault,it can't do any harm.however you should scan your system with avg and other scanners also like spybot ,dr web etc.|||Well if you did any online banking since you noticed a problem, I would change the password.


You should probably do a scan with this:


http://download.cnet.com/Hitman-Pro-3/30鈥?/a>





Also, AVG is a really crappy antivirus so you might want to back it up with Immunet Protect or ThreatFire.

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