1.) The other antivirus scanners were not performing a thorough scan, including compressed files.
2.) The other scanners did not have that particular worm in their definition files. (Are they up-to-date?)
3.) What Avast detected were false positives due to incorrect definitions or internal corruption. It has happened many times in the past.
I would want to know what some of those EXE files were (by name) and where they were located. (Windows directory, System32 directory, etc.)
John
I had Avast Virus Scanner run a deep scan on my computer. It found Win32 Tenga virus in 69 exe files on my computer. This was missed by AVG, as well as McAfee I want to know why?
I was running the scan on medium and it was not doing the archive files until today I decided to run a thorough scan and I kept getting these warnings to do repairs. Computer is now virus free.
Take my advise and do a thorough scan on your computers a.s.a.p with Avast Virus scanner.
I still want to know why the other virus scanners missed this virus?

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