Avast gives you rock solid protection !

gamepro127 said:

Ok turns out I hadent of updated Avast! (LOL?)
Even thought it said up-to-date, I learned you must right click on the program's taskbar icon and tell it to update.

I updated avast!, rebooted and done a full scan.
TURNS OUT, I had a trojan and rootkit still running.
The rootkit was in my SySWOW64 Drivers folder, and the trojan being a a fake winlogon.exe. I deleted both after the full system scan.

I think ill keep avast! as long as it last

Good to hear that it detected those infected files.

Hmm... wonder how long that rootkit was running?

Tews said:

Hmm... wonder how long that rootkit was running?

That rootkit was safe in his PC with the help of Norton.

Dinesh said:

Tews said:

Hmm... wonder how long that rootkit was running?

That rootkit was safe in his PC with the help of Norton.

There aint no such animal as a safe rootkit Dinesh...

F1FAN said:

when is avast 5 coming out? its beem in the news for some while now but to news of releasing it.

Avast 5 in in Beta 3 stage. Its been over 2 weeks that they haven't released any new beta yet. So I guess that's the final beta and next release will be the final version.I guess so... Really not sure when the final release will be out.
Be around to know when its out.

Tews said:

Hmm... wonder how long that rootkit was running?

Hard to tell because when your rig has a quad-core it doesnt really slow down when you get a virus. Basically the only good part about a crappy PC is that YOU CAN TELL when you get a virus and its running.

Remember, MALWAREBYTES, MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS AND NORTON failed to detect the files Avast! Caught!

EDIT: Virus Scan of the files:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/f...a52-1261595664

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/9...181-1261595734

I dont think neither of them were running. I had first done a quick scan of avast! which detected nothing, but a full scan showed both of those files. Also, I had never done a full-scan with malwarebytes, MSE or Norton. Norton detected the first one so it must have been just sitting in a folder that Norton doesnt scan during a quick-scan. MSE failed to detect both threats.

Also, after going to "MSCONFIG" neither of theses files are on startup, or ever were on startup.

Stay Safe. Use your brain. Use WOT.