Hi...

my AVG free installation runs a complete check every day and it not infrequently finds another virus. In files that have been there for years!

Today it found : " Trojan Horse PSW.OnlineGames.PLZ in njcom223.exe"
and the same thing in njwordproc. Both those files have been sitting there for years, unused. I inherited them.

How come AVG finds something there today? Did it really or is it false?

And sometimes I say 'move to vault' and it says okay but the same thing pops up again in a couple of days...

I don't have system restore enabled on my XP system.

I couldn't find a reference to "......PLZ" anywhere on the net. But I did find references to 'onlinegames.thisthatandtheother' that were quite dangerous - password finders for instance.

Anyone got the full story on this?

regards,

ab

Moved to the proper forum area for this type of posting.. please pay attention to where you are posting in the future and make sure that it fits with the subject of the forum area you are posting in. For more info on what the various forum areas are for see the Descriptions of the various forum area's. Moved to the Virus forum area.


Please read the sticky post about false positives if that is what you feel this is.

I'm pleased that others apart from me are experiencing this.

I reported it as a download fault - because I believe it is a problem associated with updates that are automatically downloaded.

Apart from being criticised (like you) for allegedly posting in the wrong part of the forum, I've had no reply to my post either.

My post was on the last day of October, incidentally. Plenty of time (I would think) to have done some sort of investigation.

Richard Ashton
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