Need to manually unquarentine files from AVG virus vault

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by c0d3Man, Aug 14, 2011.

  1. c0d3Man

    c0d3Man Private E-2

    I did an anti-rootkit scan with AVG free, it picked up a couple of files that i believe are necessary for windows start up, i cant boot windows xp, i need to mannually restore the files from the vault to the proper place with the proper names, how do i find out which files are which and their paths to where they were from a different OS on the same computer?
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    This question would probably better served by asking on AVG's Forum ( see: http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-free-forum ). They put files into the C:\$AVG8.VAULT$ folder but they rename the files from what I remember to use safe filenames and not the original names so you may not be able to recognize them. It may be possible that their free rescue CD ( AVG RescueCD ) has the ability to do this but I'm not sure. I stopped using AVG on any PCs a long time ago.
     
    Last edited: Aug 15, 2011
  3. c0d3Man

    c0d3Man Private E-2

    Thanks, I'll try that, and i know this is unrelated but i like the signiture. Im off to try the avg forums
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're welcome.

    Good luck. Stop back and let us know what solution you come up with.
     
  5. c0d3Man

    c0d3Man Private E-2

    Re: Need to manually unquarantine files from AVG virus vault

    Thanks a ton for that link to the recovery CD, it has a vault viewer that tells you what the name of the files were and where it was supposed to be, it wasn't able to restore the 2 files I needed, but this program proved to be invaluable. Luckily i had I dummy second installation on a second hard drive and I was able to copy the two files to the right directory, I'm glad it didn't restore the files though because when I compared the file sizes both of the quarantined files where a couple Kilobytes larger showing they had been tampered with and now they are no longer coming up as root-kits, whatever the added code was doing it was slowing down my download speed and overall computer speed and performance which is what alerted me. But I'm done blabbering now, thanks for the help and I hope someone else will be able to make use of info in this post also. ^_^
     
    Last edited: Aug 15, 2011
  6. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member


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