AVG 8.0 Resident Shield

AVG Resident Shield detection shows 4 Trojan Horse infections. Are they isolated from harming my pc? Is it safe to go ahead and delete them from history?

 

Hello

Before deleting anything, I'd upload those findings to www.virustotal.com and check with those "antivirals", if they a few others also detect infections.

I'd also send to AVG Labs, through the Quarantine, the infected files, so they can check whether or not they're real infections, or just false positives (tagging some legitimate files as being infectious).


Regards

 

Many thanks for your speedy reply. After checking Resident Shield history a couple days ago, and seeing 4 or 5 infected files, I immediately checked the Virus Vault and it was empty. I just assumed that the trojan horse infections would eventually delete and that my pc was still protected.
On checking again just now, there's only 1 "infected" result showing in Resident Shield history and the Virus Vault is empty.

Infection: Trojan horse downloader .Zlob_r.DS C:\documents and settings\owner\local settins\temp internet files\content .IE5\EGG25D7F\setup [1].exe
Result: Infected 11/1/2008
Object Type: File
Process: C:\Program Files\AOL9.0\waol.exe

I do not recall "removing" the other infections which showed a more recent date of 2/14 and 2/16/09, so I am at a loss as to where or how they were removed. Does AVG remove them after sometime?
Now I'm really worried as to whether my pc is still infected. Any insight you can provide will be most appreciated.

 

JRV: Thank you very much for your reply. As I mentioned, the AVG Virus Vault is empty, but the infection is still listed in Resident Shield history. So is there a reason why AVG didn't move it to the virus vault? I'm still a bit unsure of whether this trojan horse infection can still harm my pc since it wasn't quarantined (??) or moved to virus vault.
I followed your suggestion and d/loaded SuperAntiSpyware, and ran a scan. It found 2 adware, and I quarantined them. Will SAS eventually remove these or should I go ahead and remove them manually?
Thanks for any further suggestions.

 

Good Morning JRViejo!

Can I take it please that neither Malwarebyte's Anti Malware nor Super Antispyware conflicts either individually or together with AVG Internet Security.

Until recently, I did have SpywareBlaster installed, but stopped paying for the autoupdate renewal facility and removed this software as it never appeared to detect or remove any malware.

I have the very latest edition of AVG IS installed in WinXP SP3.

 

Its not supposed to detect or remove malware

 

Exactly. It's only there as a defense/preventive measure. Nothing else.

 

Thanks for the information about SywareBlaster - m00nblood and GES/POR.

My main reason for ditching this program was not its apparent inactivity: it was because that, in spite of having paid for auto updates, these never happened in the past six months. I was reliant upon Wilder's Update Forum to see when an updates was available and then installed this manually.

 

Thanks for your reply JRViejo and for your helpful postings!

I downloaded a trial copy of Malwarebytes earlier today and running it located and eliminated three malware entries in the registry, so I then bought a licence.

It seems a very good addition to the protection of one's PC.

I will try SuperAntiSpyware tomorrow as well.