ADS Hidden Stream/Symantec Antiviri?

hi, recently i changed to diff antivirus program
Symantec Antivirus Corp 9.0.2.1000

TDS3 scanned and found some streams including this 493 bytes from syma.
a search dint came to anything thats why im posting it here just in case
should i delete it or is it save?

btw tds also found streams i my Mirc/ Invision script folder
any info on this would be appriciated, thanks

http://img96.exs.cx/img96/1838/t1htds1.png
http://img96.exs.cx/img96/6392/a2mtds2.png

 

Hi Fred22, You can delete all of those streams. The kavich's are left over from KAV antivirus, so you probably had the latest KAV installed recently as it creates some streams to speed up scanning
Streams smaller than 128 bytes are usually deemed as safe the MZ.exe I have seen before and if I remeber correctly it is not dangerous.

HTH Pilli

 

Hi Pilli, thx for the clearup on it, although i didnt have KAV installed
i tested nod32/mks_2004 bfore though
so basically its from older viri software?

nway i leave it alone then.

 

I have only seen those streams associated woth KAV and I do not think that NOD uses streams. You can delete them anyway.
Quite often some images create streams of 88 bytes so I have TDS Adstream options set to Ignore streams smaller than 90 bytes.

Pilli