Avg Free Said That My "shell32.dll" Was Changed??? What does that mean?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by superstar, Feb 17, 2007.

  1. superstar

    superstar Major-Superstar

    Okay I did a full pc scan of my computer with avg free today like I regularly do. & well avg free stated this during my scan:

    OBJECT:

    C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll

    RESULT:

    CHANGE

    STATUS:

    CHANGED


    Well I've never seen that happen before during a scan. Avg free finished scanning after and found absolutely no threats, virus', etc. So I'm wondering what in the hell did that mean? What was changed and why? I never changed anything so something must have.


    Please help so I know my pc is a ok. I did a free system scan with trendmicro.com after and it found nothing.



    Thank You
     
    superstar, Feb 17, 2007
    #1
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    couple of differential options are:


    Windows update or an update changed yoru Shell32.dll, which prompted this alert.

    Your AVG latest dat file has a false positive to this file.



    If you do a scan with Panda online or Bitdefender do you get similar? but as you did Trends online scan its likely its a one off change due to an update or a false positive, just monitor for the next few weeks.
     
    DavidGP, Feb 17, 2007
    #2

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