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I have the free Avast Antivirus installed on my Windows 10 computer but sometimes like to download and run the free Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (KVRT) just as a second opinion scan for malware. However, whenever I run this scan, KVRT seems to drop a couple of .tmp files into my C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Temp which usually look something ...
Can Avast remove "startpage-home.com" (some kind of browser hijacker virus ) For some reason, this strange "startpage-home.com" is able to hijack my Chrome's start page once awhile. From Chrome's settings, I couldn't find anything like that on my add-on extension, my Chrome's start page remains the start page I want, and my default search ...
Former Internet Tech support agent, familiar with firewall and anti-virus issues. Use ccleaner to remove junk files, Spybot for spyware removal with the immunize function Happened all of a sudden that the screen saver scanner would scan nothing, and then no scan options, and trouble updating. Removed and reinstalled Avast with no luck,
The nt.txt file is infected. You are more than likely infected with the Hopel virus. W97M.Hopel.A is a macro virus that infects Microsoft Word documents when you click Open, Close, Save, New, or Exit. This virus has many different payloads that it can execute on Exit. If an infected document is double-clicked, the virus saves the infected ...
After the latest program update 17.2.2288 with release date 2-2-17, the scan proceeds and finishes as expected. It will stay 14% or so for awhile while performing the virus scan, then it will continue to scan or check the other components.
Thanks Rednose, The add/remove programs wouldn't build the list, so I rebooted. As soon as it came back up, the scan started at the 98% mark, and still won't allow pause/stop.
After a scan from OneCare Safety Scanner, Which said it found about 18 infected items and 4 or 5 issues. It and Microsoft's virus/ removal tool apparently removed them. After most the viruses apparently got removed, the virus removal tool said that I had no viruses, but OneCare's scanner said it still found 3 infected items and 1 issue.
Thanks for the reply! I installed and ran the free version of Malwarebytes yesterday...glad to know they still come recommended. It did not detect the beni virus. Running it again now and will purchase the paid version if the free version still doesn't detect it. I'll let you know my progress.
Clicking on ok will make your desktop go blank, don’t worry, its normal. It will fix the autorun.inf virus and you are done partially. Yes, its a partial solution, it will lock the autorun file and you will see some file created by flash disinfector. If you remove the file, the virus get re activated.
Useful Smart Scan notifications — We’ve fine-tuned the behavior of Smart Scan with improved initialization steps, and ensured that you receive proper notifications about scheduled scans. Better feature shortcuts — We’ve changed the main tile navigation so Avast Antivirus features are easier to distinguish from shortcuts to other Avast ...