Quick question about avast! Virus Chest...

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Caliban, Dec 10, 2009.

  1. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Hi...

    I'm running a cleaning procedure on a client's Vista 32-bit machine, and I'm at the "empty the virus chest" step...there aren't any files in the avast! Infected or User files sections, but the following show up in the System files section:

    (2) instances of kernel32.dll, (1) winsock.dll, (1) wsock32.dll - all dated from 9/29/2009 or before...

    Are these safe to delete, or, since they're not in the Infected files section, should I leave them alone?

    Little jittery, here - this machine has some problems, but I'm loathe to wipe it and reinstall, because they've got a lot of important data...

    T.I.A
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Don't delete them. Those are valid system files.
     
  3. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Copy - thanks!
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're welcome.
     

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