confused by Kaspersky free online scanner results

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by hoobie, Jul 31, 2007.

  1. hoobie

    hoobie Private E-2

    Just scanned w/ Kaspersky for the first time just for maintenance and it said it found 1 virus and 1 infected file. When I look at the report though, all I see are numerous skipped objects (mostly locked Symantec files) and one hp file that may or may not be marked as infected. The hp file is

    hp\bin\killwind.exe

    which is a legit HP utility that came w/ my HP computer. However, googling it turned up other folks who say McAffee sometimes falsely pegs this utility as a virus.

    Could someone please look at my Kaspersky report and tell me if it looks like I actually have a virus that needs to be removed. Norton turns up nothing, and I'd prefer not to install the full Kaspersky program if I can avoid it, because I already own Norton and use Ad-Aware and Spyblaster too and that seems like enough.

    I've attached the report.
     

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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    There are no problems showing in your log. As you suspected the killwind.exe is just false indication. Many scanners detect this and a few other poorly named files from HP.
     

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