question regarding House Cleaning for malware removal.

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by caesar1981, Oct 8, 2009.

  1. caesar1981

    caesar1981 Private E-2

    Hi,

    Under House Cleaning in the Malware removal prep guide it says to Empty ALL Quarantine type folders for antivirus and antispyware applications.I ran AVAST and I have several infected files quarantined. Avast! warned me that some of them may be system files and that I may not want to remove them; so I just quarantined them. My question is which, if any, of these files should I delete from the quarantine/Virus Chest? I have listed the files down below including the "non infected" ones Avast placed in the Virus Chest.

    The Virus description on each is "WIN:MalOb-F [Cryp]" and their location was C:\System Volume Information\_restore...(followed by a long number that looks like a software key).

    9 of the files are of this type:

    A0099467.DLL
    A0099468.DLL
    etc.

    3 are these:

    A0100542.EXE
    A0100543.EXE
    bwjcfmfa.exe

    Those are all in the Infected folder. However when I click 'All Chest Files' on the left under Categories, 3 other files show up below the infected files I listed above:

    kernal32.dll
    winsock.dll
    wsock32.dll

    When I check the properties of these last 3 files kernal32.dll,
    winsock.dll, & wsock32.dll the Virus Description is blank.

    Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. It is greatly appreciated.
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Just ignore the emptying of quarantine files and continue all the way thru the rest of the instructions. Attach the 5 logs when you finish.
     

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