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Found virus
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Posted by Paul (72 messages posted)

Avast identified this virus: c\windows\installer\...\[embedded#Xinstalldll] Unable to locate any reference to it, Avast offers no help to remove it, only put in the Chest. Search of my computer files and Google unfruitful. Any suggestions? Thanks

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re: Found virus
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Posted by Spexx (1951 messages posted)

Avast is saying that it found a virus signature in a file embeded within another, most probably a .msi file as it is in the Windows Installer directory tree. It may be a false-positive, or not. It would be useful if you posted up the entire folder path. You could also scan the file using one of the many online scanners to see if other anti-malware products "see" the same problem. Hope this helps. Cheers. Spexx.


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