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Posted by Zephyr on January 16, 2008, 7:15 am
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> says...
>> I was wondering if there is anyone that could give me some information.
>>
>> AVG gave a virus warning yesterday stating that it had found the "Proxy
>> XQA" virus and it mentioned the file aspimgr.exe. When it finished AVG
>> said that it had got rid of the virus.
>>
>> Today when the scan was run it found a problem with A0038967.exe which
>> it then stated it had cleaned.
>>
>> I assume that these two virus warnings are related and I am concerned
>> that AVG did not clear the virus completely.
>>
>> Could anyone help?
>>
>> Thank in advance.
>>
>>
> aspimgr.exe will have been what you can think of as the "live" virus.
> A0038967.exe will be a copy of it in one of your system restore points.
> The second file won't have been detected originally as it wasn't being
accessed at the time, but the
> full scan later on saw it.
>
> Extra steps you may wish to take, but which are optional:
> 1. Dump the restore points, since you know there's been a problem with them.
Disable system
> restore, re-boot, re-enable system restore. On the other hand, all bar the
most recent will be OK,
> and they're handy to have around.
> 2. Google the virus a bit and see if it dumps any other files, or sets any
registry entries. AVG may
> not have dealt with those.
Thanks for this, it certainly makes me feel a lot better.
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