please help virus detected

hi again all i took the advice of the good people on here and installed avast av and came up with a few viruses hope you can tell me how to remove them one is KUANG2 and the other is MATYAS and AND PAV.SIG dont know how to remove them
thank you in advance
Phil

 

Hi rmb, here's what your help section for avast says:
It is possible to work with the files listed in the results. Select the file and click on the Action button. You can choose the same actions as in the case when virus is found, i.e. delete, repair, move, move to the Chest or scan .
Personally I'd delete the suckers, then run avast again to see if you got all of them.

 

thanks for the reply Bill i will take your advice i am running it again so far no sign of them but if they show up again i will dlete them thanks so much well one showed up again so far do i hit delete all or just delete

Phil

 

No prob Phil. Nice to be able to snuff the little buggars ain't it?

 

Phil - if you run into infected files that can't be deleted from within Windows, Avast has a nifty boot-time scan feature that you can schedule from the main menu.

 

Just to add
I dont know what OS you are running but if you have System Restore enabled make sure you disable this and reboot before scanning

If you havent got System Restore or you dont use it please ignore the above advice

 

thank you once again everyone for all the great help it seems that so far the only thing so far that keep poping up id the sig. one witch is the panda file thank god!!! im running the program at this moment so ill post back when its finishes. again thank you so much.
Phil

ps.if i see the kuang 2 again i will get more info if possible

as for the matyas thing ill also have to check into that if it shows up again as well

running windows 98se no restore point, not sure where the boot scan is just installed the program yesterday still getting use to it.

hi alanc it seems that the book time scan isnt enabled on the free version am i doing something wrong?

 

When I ran Avast the first time I also found Kuang2.
I clicked for it to clean and so far it seemed to have fixed it.

 

Knock on wood I've never had a virus BUT I just ran AVAST and it found Kuang2 and matyas

win32: Kuang 2 in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Active Scan\imscan.dll

win95: Matyas in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Active Scan\pav.sig
and in C:\WINDOWS\system32\pav.sig

Of course, I just went ahead and told good old AVAST to delete the files. I didn't think about "clean" or anything.

I have Windows XP home. I ran the AVAST scan with system restore on, and deleted the files with everything up and running and haven't rebooted my computer. Should I do anything more? different? etc.

 

All right - I posted a thread called "3 viruses, but the link is up in "software"?" -- down in the "spyware" forum for this. I had searched for the viruses and came up with this thread which was already in the Software forum so when I added my post... here is where it sits forum -- where I know it doesn't really belong.

 

Some of the several false positives that Avast picks up...those 2 are related to Panda AntiVirus. There are references to it on the Avast support site.

 

Yep - saw that after I searched and came to this post. SOOOOO - I already deleted it like I said but with system restore ON and I haven't restarted my computer...can I go get them back...?
Do I need to do anything else for the KUANG2?

 

Don't worry about it. Those are Panda activescan (the online scanner) files.

If you ever go there again it will probably reinstall whatever's missing.

I'd just nuke this whole directory:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Active Scan\

 

thanks

Thanks - very helpful -- I was wondering what the "active scan" directory was.

I'm curious how I got the kuang2 virus when I have everything up-to-date and running and I'm a nut about Ad-Aware, spybot, spywareblaster, etc.

 

Re: thanks

You don't have the virus.

It's a false positive.