Contains a virus and has been deleted...

THT · 1 Jun 2013 at 19:23

I fixed someones laptop recently who had a malware infection.

Its all gone now and all tools show that there is no more virus or malware.

However, when downloading a file in internet explorer, it still says that the file contains a virus and will be deleted.
Downloading the same file in Chrome or Firefox works fine.

Microsoft Security Essentials was installed before and seems to have been corrupted by the infection. I assume this is whats bloocking in IE. I have done a manual uninstall of MSE but the issue remains

What else can I try?

Raumarik · 1 Jun 2013 at 19:41

Scan it again with an updated malwarebytes, perhaps even use an online scanner like f-secure (http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal-tools)

it's probably not IE or MSE that's causing it but malware, MSE would block it on Firefox/Chrome if it had a problem with the file, so it's possible IE has malware associated with it which is causing MSE to block the file.

KIA · 1 Jun 2013 at 20:50

Reset IE settings.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 1 Jun 2013 at 21:29

Fresh install of windows. I do it once a month to clean out all the crap. I don't use an anti virus. Reinstalling will fix it.

Coolasmoo · 1 Jun 2013 at 21:33

Evga_Gamer said:
Fresh install of windows. I do it once a month to clean out all the crap. I don't use an anti virus. Reinstalling will fix it.

Really

5960xNvidiaGamer · 1 Jun 2013 at 21:34

Yeah mate

KIA · 1 Jun 2013 at 21:54

You must use and abuse your system if you have to format once a month. The average Win7 system on an SSD will go for years without needing a format to restore performance.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 1 Jun 2013 at 22:11

Yeah i do mate, download a lot, and game a lot.

Arthur Hucksake · 1 Jun 2013 at 22:19

KIA said:
You must use and abuse your system if you have to format once a month. The average Win7 system on an SSD will go for years without needing a format to restore performance.

Only takes a year before the registry becomes an abysmal mess.

Really wish Microsoft would do something to tackle the out of date registry system.

iviv · 1 Jun 2013 at 22:57

Arthur Hucksake said:
Only takes a year before the registry becomes an abysmal mess.

Really wish Microsoft would do something to tackle the out of date registry system.

Oh come on that sounds like rubbish to me. Especially with all the pre-caching that windows does now to speed up boot times and the like, I can actually see a format giving no performance increase unless your install is a few years old or is full of more junk than the average user would have.

d_brennen · 1 Jun 2013 at 23:06

Evga_Gamer said:
Yeah i do mate, download a lot, and game a lot.

What kind of awesome porn are you into? :eek:

I'm rocking a 2009 Win 7 install sans antivirus and I game and download plenty (legally, I might add)

Arthur Hucksake said:
Only takes a year before the registry becomes an abysmal mess.

Really wish Microsoft would do something to tackle the out of date registry system.

Rubbish tbh

Cambofrog · 1 Jun 2013 at 23:19

Evga_Gamer said:
Fresh install of windows. I do it once a month to clean out all the crap. I don't use an anti virus. Reinstalling will fix it.

Trolling is too obvious mate, I would calm down for tonight

this_is_gav · 1 Jun 2013 at 23:28

iviv said:
Oh come on that sounds like rubbish to me.

Yup, with Windows XP and especially Windows 9x I could understand, but from Vista onwards it's been completely unnecessary. The only times I've reinstalled since Vista is when 7 and then 8 were released.

Zuban · 1 Jun 2013 at 23:57

Arthur Hucksake said:
Really wish Microsoft would do something to tackle the out of date registry system.

comments like this would really make me question how well someone understands how computers work, the registry is just a database of details a machine needs to reference, good luck designing a machine without a registry equivalent, unless you want to fragment all that information in an unhelpful way.

Columbo · 2 Jun 2013 at 08:30

Evga_Gamer said:
Fresh install of windows. I do it once a month to clean out all the crap. I don't use an anti virus. Reinstalling will fix it.

Evga_Gamer said:
Yeah i do mate, download a lot, and game a lot.

Hmmm.....must.......not.......feed.......the ........troll.......

Swordfish · 2 Jun 2013 at 13:12

I've seen this 3 times in the last week and no matter what tools I use (Combofix, Hitman Pro, MBAM, MBAR, Gmer etc) including the resetting of IE it makes no difference.

I have reset all services to default and run SFC. No difference. On each machine I ended up doing a backup format so if someone finds the answer it will save me a lot of further hassle !

5960xNvidiaGamer · 2 Jun 2013 at 17:23

ManCuBuS said:
Hmmm.....must.......not.......feed.......the ........troll.......

Whatever tool.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 2 Jun 2013 at 17:31

Cambofrog said:
Trolling is too obvious mate, I would calm down for tonight

And how is that trolling? its the truth fool. And as for the other thread which you wanted me to comment on, the answer is in the title.

brucey034 · 2 Jun 2013 at 19:21

Evga_Gamer said:
Fresh install of windows. I do it once a month to clean out all the crap. I don't use an anti virus. Reinstalling will fix it.

That's just mad ? really every month ?????

brucey034 · 2 Jun 2013 at 19:23

ManCuBuS said:
Hmmm.....must.......not.......feed.......the ........troll.......

I fell for it lol