As it is scanning, I have gotten about 4 or 5 popups saying "ADWARE FOUND, but do not worry!" and then asking me what I'd like to do. I forget what the options were, but it was something along the lines of like ignore, move to "chest," or delete. It said that its suggestion was to move to the chest, so I did that. Was that the right thing to do?
What happens once they are in the chest? Should I delete them from the chest or just leave those suckers in there?
.. Oh, and when I first installed avast! today, it asked if I wanted to do a "boot-time scan" at the next start up, and I hit no because I wasn't sure what that was. When I turned my computer back on, I manually started a "thorough" scan. I am specifically looking for a trojan that may have downloaded to my computer last night. Was the scan I did manually not good enough? Will it catch the same thing as a boot-time scan?
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'll pick a best answer TODAY!!!
Oh, and one last thing (sorry!)…. I just switched to avast! today, but before that I had AVG free. I did an AVG scan earlier today, and it found absolutely nothing (no adware, malware, viruses, trojans, etc.). Then I uninstalled it and installed avast! because I heard that it was better. I am now doing an avast! scan.
If I DID have a trojan on my computer, do you think that one of the two of them would have caught it?
And assuming that the scan comes back clean (it hasn't totally finished yet), should I be all set and not have to worry that I have some super-hidden trojan on there?
THANK YOU!
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Rameez V // Jul 11, 2008
Moving the Adware to the "chest" is like Quarantining it, just in case youu need the file again. It won't harm your computer when it's in the chest. If you don't need it, you can delete it from the chest.
AVG Antivirus and Avast! should both be able to catch the Trojan with a thorough or full-computer scan. If nothing showed up, I don't think there is a virus.
2 igottabigblock // Jul 11, 2008
Well, after a scan you can remove stuff from the chest (or vault I suppose) as it has been deemed nasty.
And yes, you did the right thing.
Once they are in the 'chest', they are rendered useless and can be deleted at your leisure or some programs delete them after a set number of days or boots.
The at boot-time would be before your OS is loaded, so kinda fresh slate scenario. (You inspect your food before you cook it right? Same thing here, just don't eat your OS cd.)
Manual scan should be just fine, and one of the two should catch something if there is something to be found.
If you are still unsure, try an online free scan from Trend Micro. Tis it be good stuff.
Good luck.. I think that was the majority of the questions.
3 ninjabot // Jul 11, 2008
The boot time scan is done even before the computer starts so if the computer had virus and it's not leting you start up the boot time scan will move the trogan to the virus chest. You should move the trogan to the chest when you have an important file that is infected unless you don't have just delete the virus. One more thing don't forget to register yourself because your trial license will expire in 60 days by reigstering you will get a license for 14 months for free and then you can register again
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