my antivirus detected an infection few days ago. I checked in the Activity Log, and it said sth like this: the file C:\........ is infected with the W32.Alcra.F virus. Access to the file was denied.
what does that mean? is it that the antivirus couldn't enter the file and delete it, or that the antivirus made the access to that file deniable??( and the file was quarantined)
and i tryed looking for the file so that i could delete it, and i couldn't find it.
So, is the threat over, or not?
oh, one more thing, after that day, I scanned my pc two times and it said that were no viruses in the computer.
2006-06-30 00:23:33 · 4 answers · asked by Diana B 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Symantecs (Norton) has picked this virus up. You need to quarantine it and then destroy it. If your antivirus quarantined it, then you should be okay. It has been isolated so you dont need to worry about it anymore.
W32.Alcra.F is a worm that attempts to propagate through various file-share networks accessible with BearShare, LimeWire, Morpheus and Shareaza applications. It also attempts to disable several programs on the compromised computer and drops a variant of W32.Spybot.Worm onto the compromised computer.
2006-06-30 00:28:10 · answer #1 · answered by Sean I.T ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st thing is that is your Anit Virus is legal if not then You still have virus in Ur system and if it is legal then don't worry if scanning 2 time it dose not detected the virus then you should not worry. About that access to the file was denied this means that this which was infected must be some system related file. The system might me using that file because of that it gave an error that access to the file was denied.
2006-06-30 07:30:40 · answer #2 · answered by nadeem_sayed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about that....in some cases the Antivirus softwares cannot delete the viruses even if they find them, so in your case the access of that virus to your computer was disabled and the file was quarantined. So i hope you don't mind for a 1KB file staying somewhere in your computer and doing nothing at all....:)
2006-06-30 07:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by fisi_b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... it's 70% bad... 30% good... your threat is not over yet... but it may be too... because Viruses are deeply hidden.. they get multiplied and some virus are written or programmed like this... when they gets detected by anti-virus then automatically they will automatically generate new virus in different location..... so some effective anti-virus software is needed to delete them permanently....
Run online scan at here..first http://www.trendmicro.com... if didn't found infections... 90%, threat is over...
2006-06-30 07:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by Umax 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋