GuitarBob
Joined: 09 Jul 2006 |
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Location: USA |
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:45 pm |
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You should always try to verify a file is infected before you do anything. A "good" program will occasionally trigger a false alert, and false positives happen from time-to-time with all antivirus programs.
In this case, most of the infections are due to one virus. You don't ordinarily see that many infections of one virus. Upload a copy of one of the Parite-infected files (identified on your scan report) to Jotti at https://virusscan.jotti.org/ on the web and get a free scan with 19 antivirus programs (including Clam). If more than a couple of other antivirus programs say the file is infected, it is probably a real infection and not a false positive. You might also want to verify/upload each of the other files (one-at-a-time), although it looks to me like they are real infections. Another scanning service is VirusTotal at https://www.virustotal.com/ on the web.
If you find an infection is real, change ClamWin's general preferences to Move To Quarantine Folder and re-scan. Each infected file found by ClamWin will then be moved to the quarantine folder, and you can delete it from there. The location of the folder will be noted below the Move To Quarantine Folder block under preferences.
Afterwards, be sure to re-set ClamWin's general preferences to Report Only. You have three choices to treat an infection (Report, Remove, or Quarantine), and Report is the best choice. If you choose Quarantine, you might quarantine an important Windows system file that has a false positive, and you would lose access to Windows (it happened to me once). If you choose Remove, the file will be removed by ClamWin as soon as it is found.
Regards,
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