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AVG found Exploit virus but didn't
Name: chris729 Date: January 14, 2007 at 01:50:18 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Duron 900/256 Product: AMD Duron 903
Comment:
My AVG showed the Exploit virus: 2_z{1}htm in a temp file of IE. AVG message said there was a problem trying to repair it and it didn't put in the virus vault so I could delete it there. How do I find and delete it? I copied the path from AVG, can you search for it and delete it that way? Will another anti-virus work?
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser4Real Date: January 14, 2007 at 08:26:57 Pacific
Reply:
chris, if you'd like you can D/L Avast free Avast! 4 home edition Then disable AVG, execute the avast and let it do a bootscan and then a regular scan. You can always uninstall Avast and go back to AVG after that.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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Response Number 4
Name: chris729 Date: January 14, 2007 at 09:20:22 Pacific
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Thank you both, I'll check into them. At least I know its there and needs to be fixed even if AVG didn't isolate it. We have all the updates from IE - from what I've read, they've fixed security hole that Exploit uses. Still got through somehow.
I'm thinking it was an older clip download that had IE5. I did try to find it but the search kept giving message that it wasn't a valid filepath and when I looked in the temp files I couldn't find anything with even a similar name.
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