Virus attack?

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Keith (Southend)

I hardly ever pick up any virus's but in the last couple of days AVG as
picked up the following:

Worm/VB.AUG ~ Path C:\System Volume
Information\_Restore{B53A04CB-A809-4AC1-A304-D8164FF95A0D}\RP468\A0129682.exe
Detected one at 12:44 and a similar variation at 15:44, wasn't even
using the computer at the time.

Yesterday another Worm/VB.AUG ~ Path c:\....\Firefox Setup 1.5.0.3.exe,
..4.exe and similar (6 in total)

7th March. Trojan Horse Generic3.GOH ~ WWLib.zip,
\WallWatcher\MSWINSCK.OCX, similar one in System32 directory, also both
appeared in the folder where I download to.

Are these false positives on AVG or is something going on out there?
 
D

David H. Lipman

From: "Keith (Southend)" <[email protected]>

| I hardly ever pick up any virus's but in the last couple of days AVG as
| picked up the following:
|
| Worm/VB.AUG ~ Path C:\System Volume
| Information\_Restore{B53A04CB-A809-4AC1-A304-D8164FF95A0D}\RP468\A0129682.exe
| Detected one at 12:44 and a similar variation at 15:44, wasn't even
| using the computer at the time.
|
| Yesterday another Worm/VB.AUG ~ Path c:\....\Firefox Setup 1.5.0.3.exe,
| .4.exe and similar (6 in total)
|
| 7th March. Trojan Horse Generic3.GOH ~ WWLib.zip,
| \WallWatcher\MSWINSCK.OCX, similar one in System32 directory, also both
| appeared in the folder where I download to.
|
| Are these false positives on AVG or is something going on out there?

False Positives.
 
B

Bullseye

I hardly ever pick up any virus's but in the last couple of days AVG as
picked up the following:

Worm/VB.AUG ~ Path C:\System Volume
Information\_Restore{B53A04CB-A809-4AC1-A304-D8164FF95A0D}\RP468\A0129682.exe
Detected one at 12:44 and a similar variation at 15:44, wasn't even
using the computer at the time.

Yesterday another Worm/VB.AUG ~ Path c:\....\Firefox Setup 1.5.0.3.exe,
.4.exe and similar (6 in total)

7th March. Trojan Horse Generic3.GOH ~ WWLib.zip,
\WallWatcher\MSWINSCK.OCX, similar one in System32 directory, also both
appeared in the folder where I download to.

Are these false positives on AVG or is something going on out there?
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I would be willing to guess they are false positives. My experience is
that since AVG took over the old Ewido scanner, it has produced a lot of
FP's. I can scan with NOD32 & SuperAntispyware and they find nothing,
then AVG will find 7 or 8 pieces of 'malware,' all of which I know to be
legit files. I wouldn't be too worried about it, but would suggest using
multiple scanners to see if the others hit on the files also.
 
K

Keith (Southend)

Bullseye said:
I would be willing to guess they are false positives. My experience is
that since AVG took over the old Ewido scanner, it has produced a lot of
FP's. I can scan with NOD32 & SuperAntispyware and they find nothing,
then AVG will find 7 or 8 pieces of 'malware,' all of which I know to be
legit files. I wouldn't be too worried about it, but would suggest
using multiple scanners to see if the others hit on the files also.
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Thanks for your replies. SuperAntispyware found nothing.
 
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