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| DATE | Oct 2, 2006 |
| TICKET | #28571 |
| STATUS | Closed |
| SUBJECT | ClamXav Reports that there is a virus |
| CAT | Computers, Operating Systems, Applications or Connected Devices |
| TYPE | Software Applications |
| DESC | Antivirus, Security, Utilities |
| DESC | |
| PLATFORM | Apple Macintosh (Intel) |
| MODEL | Apple MacBook Pro |
| PROC | 2 GHz Intel Core Duo |
| RAM | 1 GB 667 MHz DDR 2 SDRAM |
| DRIVE | 100 GB, about 50 GB Free |
| NAME | Jimmy |
| USERNAME | iPower676 |
| TECHNICAL | Lots of Experience |
| ISSUE | Just Started Looking |
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TICKET ARCHIVE -> ClamXav Reports that there is a virus
iPower676 - Oct 2, 2006 - 6:05 pm
I was scanning my Hard Drive with ClamXav Antivirus and it came up with this:
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Engine/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Engine20060906/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Engine20060920/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Hub/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
It says that there are viruses in the Norton Support Folder. I then scanned it with Norton and it came up clean. Is this a virus or just an issue because I have two Antiviruses on the same disk? If so I will remove ClamXav and ignore the results from it. Thanks in advance!
Also the "virus" has not cause any harm to any files on my Hard Drive.
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Engine/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Engine20060906/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Engine20060920/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton AntiVirus/Hub/VIRSCAN9.DAT: Trojan.Aavirus FOUND
It says that there are viruses in the Norton Support Folder. I then scanned it with Norton and it came up clean. Is this a virus or just an issue because I have two Antiviruses on the same disk? If so I will remove ClamXav and ignore the results from it. Thanks in advance!
Also the "virus" has not cause any harm to any files on my Hard Drive.
Macentrasher - Oct 2, 2006 - 7:58 pm
I see you are using a Macbook Pro and must assume you are running OSX. To this day there are no known virus's able to infect OSX and therefor no dat files available for antivirus programs to detect virus's on OSX based computers. even if it did find a windows virus on your computer it would be unable to infect OSX.
-Eric.
-Eric.
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