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Go to VirusTotal at https://www.virustotal.com/ on the Web and upload those files one at a time for scanning. VT will give you a report on each file. If several other AVs there find an infection, it's probably for real. Delete the file in that case.
As for locating the files on your computer, if you have ClamWin set to quarantine, they have been put in the quarantine folder, which is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\.clamwin\quarantine on a Windows XP machine. The quarantine folder location is listed in the box below "move to the quarantine folder" on the General Preferences Page. If you have ClamWin set to Report Only, they file stay where they originally were on your computer. Their location is listed in the ClamWin Scan Report. You can "paint" the location and go there using Windows Explorer. I prefer to leave the files where they were, upload them to VT, and remove/replace them if VT finds an infection. Regards, |
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Thank you
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This is good information, thanks. But after discovering a false positive, what is the best way to avoid revisiting this file in future scans? Can ClamWin be configured to ignore individual files? best wishes, richard myers Denver, Colorado |
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Best way to avoid revisiting the file in future scans is to upload at copy of it to Clam at https://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi on the Web and tell them it is a false positive, so they will remove/change the signature. You can go to ClamWin's filters preferences and put the filename in the "Exclude Matching Filenames" section until Clam updates the signatures. If the detection is a PUA (potentially unwanted application), you could uncheck the PUA detection block in ClamWin's advanced preferences for a while until the signature is changed, but they don't like to change the PUAs.
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