On 04/18/2010 12:53 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:37 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > >> One other weird thing i forgot to mention. >> >> I install xp via wine 2 months ago. >> Have not touched it since. >> >> Started scanning just to see a week ago. >> >> The files that were renamed by the virus were done two days ago, >> according to time stamps. >> >> So this thing sat dormant until I started looking for them and that >> is >> when it attacked. >> >> Now that's wild >> > ---- > from your description it sounds as if the other AV program identified > and renamed the files - whether it is a real positive or a false > positive is probably debatable. > > Sometimes I think the Windows AV products like to 'find' things to > demonstrate that they are working and have some value. > > Craig > > > No, I did not do any action from Avira when they were found because that is what I assumed they were, false positive. Maybe Clamav did automatically but there was no notification and Clamav reported no virus at all so I would have to discount it. I do think the virus renamed files The only thing Clamav caught was the test virus that comes with it. I removed wine and virtual box installations and re ran the scan. Clean as a whistle -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
