Really stupid question - I hope

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Correct me if I am wrong, but, during a Quick Scan or a Full System Scan, it is normal to see Trojan.Horse, e.t.c., in what the Scanner is searching for; it does not mean that these are on your system, un-less it states so, e.g. “‘Total Items Resolved’ - 1”, or “‘Total Items that Require Attention’ - 2”.

Message Edited by Floating_Red on 09-17-2008 09:15 PM

Hi nicb

 

As Floating_Red says, it's perfectly normal to see these words coming up during the drive scan. What is happening is your Norton program is scanning for traces of these particular malware types, that's why you see the words, they are not files on your computer.

 

If the scan results are clean, everything is OK.

 

John

Message Edited by johna on 09-18-2008 03:23 PM

Hi guys,

 

I have this very thing happening to me as well. when I first installed Norton and ran scans I'm sure I did not see these file names when Norton was scanning the start up and commonly infested files. All of a sudden I am seeing these file names appearing. My parents have a new PC and Norton was intsalled on that PC as well and they are also seeing these Trojan file names, but in a different order to mine, and some different names.

 

I am feeling really uncomfortable about things now. I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled from the installation files on a partition of my hard drive. If these are actually real viruses, could they have infected the partition where the installation files are? If so, then wouldn't they just re-infest when I re-install?

 

Geez I hate these people who write viruses.


Danzibar wrote:

Hi guys,

 

I have this very thing happening to me as well. when I first installed Norton and ran scans I'm sure I did not see these file names when Norton was scanning the start up and commonly infested files. All of a sudden I am seeing these file names appearing. My parents have a new PC and Norton was intsalled on that PC as well and they are also seeing these Trojan file names, but in a different order to mine, and some different names.

 

I am feeling really uncomfortable about things now. I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled from the installation files on a partition of my hard drive. If these are actually real viruses, could they have infected the partition where the installation files are? If so, then wouldn't they just re-infest when I re-install?

 

Geez I hate these people who write viruses.


 

The reason you may see differnet Names is because someone might have up-to-the-minute Virus Definitions whereas you may a a Day-Old V.D.s on your computer.

 

Please see the Solution to this Post for more information.

 

Your two questions: Please could you provide more details as I don't quite understand what you mean.  Thanks!

Hi Floating_Red,

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

As far as I know,  the Windows Vista installation files are on a partiton on my laptop's HDD. Can a virus migrate to this partition and hence these files? When I formatted my HDD I assume the partiton with the Vista instationand files was not formatted...otherwise I would not be able to reinstall Vista. I reinstalled using the recovery disc. If a virus can migrate between partitons then wouldn't it be able to migrate back to the other partiton when I reinstall Vista? Or am I completey wrong? Does the recovery disc contain the Vist installion files?

 

Also, can a virus infect the BIOS files and cause and problems?

 

The reason I am so suspisious is beacuse one night my camera came on by itself, then turned off by itself. Thats when I had a close look at the files being scanned by Norton and noticed the same thing that nicb did.

 

Thanks.

Two factors protect you.

 

1.  Most malware sticks to the drive it got itself onto and doesn't migrate to other partitions.  This is a usually, not an always. Sometimes a virus can get at anything you open up with a particular piece of software.  In that case, if you access something on another drive or in another partition, the virus can get there.

 

2.  Most Restore partitions are read-only or even hidden and read-only.  That makes it much harder for a virus to affect even if it found its way there.

 

However, most modern systems have a make of copying your restore partition to a series of CDs and DVDs and you should take advantage of that option the first chance you get.