GuitarBob
Joined: 09 Jul 2006 |
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Location: USA |
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:10 pm |
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It's been a while now since you posted, and no one has answered you, so I'll take a crack at it.
I wouldn't worry much about the files ending in .tmp. Many programs create temp files, including ClamWin, but they are usually deleted later when you reboot your computer or when the program that created them runs again. Reboot and run another scan to see if they are still there and make another post here for some official help. Also, you don't usually have to worry about system files that ClamWin can't open. The system is either using those files or has locked them, which is probably okay. It appears that you do have two infections which have been moved to quarantine.
My suggestion: temporarily disable System Restore if you are using Windows XP--to ensure that neither virus will reappear when/if you later restore your system. Then Delete the two items in quarantine. If you want to know for sure if they are viruses, you could first upload them to VirusTotal at https://www.virustotal.com/en/virustotalf.html. VirusTotal will scan each one at a time for you with multiple virus scanners for free. If a couple of the other scanners find them to contain viruses, that reinforces what ClamWin found. If no other scanners find a virus, then it is probably a false positive. That Annihilator virus is probably the real thing. I got it a couple of weeks ago and deleted it. It seems to be ad/spyware. It was also in System Restore, so I had to temporarily disable System Restore to get rid of it for good.
To make your scans shorter, use the ClamWin Advanced Preferences to Try To Scan Executable Files Only. As an alternative (and maybe this is faster), you could use the ClamWin Preferences filter and only scan files that are commonly used to hide viruses. Do a Google search for "dangerous file extensions" to find them. Also set ClamWin to Scan In Archives and Open Microsoft Office Documents. Also include files with the extensions doc, ppt, xls, pub, dll, sys, php, pdf, zip, rar, tar, and 7z. The way to name these files to filter is: *.xxx, with xxx being the three letters of each type of file extension. The star indicates any name should be scanned with those extensions. This option isn't 100% safe, but it takes about 35 minutes to scan my 160 GB harddrive on my Win XP machine, and I also use a real time/resident scanner in addition to ClamWin.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
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