Viruses in Ad-Aware?

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Carnie, Sep 23, 2005.

  1. Carnie

    Carnie Private E-2

    Hi,

    I've seen problems similar to this posted elsewhere on the net but never with a satisfactory solution - hope someone here can help...

    I'm running:
    Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06r1 (fully updated)
    McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0 (fully updated)

    Problem:
    When I perform a full system scan with Ad-Aware, McAfee pops up to say it has found and deleted these viruses:
    Counter.class
    Dummy.class
    Matrix.class
    Parser.class

    They are all detected as 'Exploit-ByteVerify' apart from Matrix.class which is detected as 'JV/Shinwow'. McAfee says they are all trojans.
    They are all in this folder:
    C:/Documents and Settings/Sonia/Local Settings/Temp/AAWTMP/C18450690/30D6C6

    and McAfee says the offending application is Ad-aware.exe.

    The only time McAfee finds these problems is when I do a full system scan with Ad-aware. I have no other (apparent) symptoms.

    I don't think they are quarantined files by Ad-aware - if they were, why would they keep returning after being deleted by McAfee? I've tried reinstalling Ad-aware but get the same problem.

    What can/should I do!?

    Thanks!
     
    Last edited: Sep 23, 2005
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    They are false positives. McAfee is detecting stuff that Ad-Aware is creating in a temp folder while it is running a scan.
     
  3. Carnie

    Carnie Private E-2

    Ah - I wondered if it might be something like that. Thanks for the help :)
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're welcome! Happy to help shed some light on it.
     

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