kaspersky scan-serious? & how to remove infects

Hi, a few questions. A) The PC is an old 500 MHz P3 500 MB RAM, so it's not very fast, ever. wXPproSP2. It seemed unusually & consistently slow lately. Have AVG free installed. But to double check, tried out Kaspersky free online scan, 1st time. So here's the questions:
-The onlne scan results found some 14 viruses, 195 infected objects and 76 suspicious ones. A lot were in temp files, history files, and in \crypto\RSA subdirectories. So what is the reputability of this online scanner? Are these false positives? These don't look very serious to me.
--This free scan is just a scan. If you want them cleaned out by Kaspersky, you have to buy the program. Aside from using the report to manually go to each location & delete the "infection ", is there another way to clean out these that's faster?
-Thank you.

 

Hi larkin

Please read this topic in regards to Kaspersky. You can save the scan report and post it here for review. Once analyzed we can decide what's needed for cleanup.

 

Thank you. Is the following what you meant? If not, how/what should I put here? Thanks.

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Here's what I meant. Please do an online scan with Kaspersky WebScanner

Click Scan Now and Accept the agreement. You will be promted to install an ActiveX component from Kaspersky, Click Yes.

• The program will launch and then begin downloading the latest definition files:
• Once the files have been downloaded click on NEXT
• Now click on Scan Settings
• In the scan settings make that the following are selected:
  • Scan using the following Anti-Virus database:
  • Extended (if available otherwise Standard)
  • Scan Options:
  • Scan Archives
    Scan Mail Bases
• Click OK
• Now under select a target to scan:
  • Select My Computer
• This will program will start and scan your system.
• The scan will take a while so be patient and let it run.
• Once the scan is complete it will display if your system has been infected.
  • Now click on the Save as Text button:
• Save the file to your desktop.

Post the Kaspersky log here.

 

Thank you, Noahdfear. I did post a text report here (I had to convert from html & rtfd to text, I think). Possibly because it was so big, all that appeared on my screen was an asterisk (*) instead of the entire report. So was my report visible to you? It turns out that my first scan that few days ago, included all your recommendation but not the archives. So rather than rescan merely to include archives, if that report was received, is there anything you can tell me how to use it to determine the validity/accuracy? If the report did not come to windowsbbs, then I must figure out another way to send it, possibly 2 or more parts, or ...? Do you need the entire report?

Also, since that online scan, I had my local free AVG scan the computer. It found no infections. Further, having read a bit more, I've refined my concern to the effectiveness of any virus program to combat present threats. Wikipedia author says that within the past year, all such programs have declined to 30% effectiveness. And there's really little out there that's objective on effectiveness, or anything on anti-botnet. That's what I'm wondering is really going on. The router is NAT, the PCs have ZA, this is being written on PPC G4 OS X.3.9, I don't do P2P, but so what on any of these?

So if you believe there's some real utility to doing another Kaspersky scan, I will. Again, aside from checking the "archive" box, all settings were originally per your advice (unbeknownst to me, etc.), so I expect little to change.

Thank you.

 

No scan report received. You can always email the saved scan report to me in whatever format you saved it. I will post any relevant portions of it here.

Recommend you first do some cleanup. Download ATF Cleaner by Atribune and save it to your Desktop.

• Double click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
• Check the boxes to the left of:
  
  
  • Windows Temp
  • Current User Temp
  • All Users Temp
  • Temporary Internet Files
  • Prefetch
  • Java Cache
  • Recycle bin
  
  
• The rest are optional - if you want it to remove everything check "Select All ".
• Finally, click Empty Selected. When you get the "Done Cleaning" message, click OK then exit.

Reboot


Archives are compressed files, like .zip or .rar Harmless unless they're unzipped if there happens to be an infection inside. Your choice whether to scan them or not.