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Threat Detected by Avast on G2G

Started by Spyderturbo007 , Mar 04 2011 08:59 AM

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Spyderturbo007

Posted 04 March 2011 - 08:59 AM

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I was reading this thread in the Computer Won't Boot - Malware Related thread and went to click on the link in post #21 so I could look at the MBR dump when I received this message from Avast. Is this a false positive due to the contents of the text file? I'm assuming that Avast just thinks it's a rootkit when it really isn't, but just wanted to be sure.

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Posted 04 March 2011 - 10:06 AM

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Microsoft Security Essentials flagged it too. However, I opened it on a VM, and wasn't infected. Since it's served its purpose, I removed it to prevent others from being concerned.