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(Unverified)Dec 3rd 2009 11:20AM
After a call from my dad who was chasing this ghost virus issue, I read up at DSLreports... I had the 091203-0 definitions but didn't have any alarms. So, I triggered a manual virus scan. During the memory test, it screamed at me four times. Each time I hit "do nothing" since I knew it was a false positive.
Then, unprompted, my computer shut down. No warning, nothing. It then booted into dos Avast, and started scanning. Without asking it started DELETING files it felt were infected. I quickly escaped out, and upon returning to Windows, I stopped the protection. My settings are all set to "ask what to do".
My dad's system wasn't as lucky. He's getting all sorts of "missing dll" errors. His windows directory is like Swiss cheese. Nothing short of an Acronis restore would help.
Calling this a simple 'mistake' or 'accident' I think is an understatement. If the program intentionally removes files, despite user options being set to prompt first, there seems to be some malice behind it.