a phantom computer virus

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Answer this for me. McAfee notified me that I had a virus and it could
not be cleaned, deleted, quarantined or otherwise removed. So, I went
to "search" to find its location and when I searched it said no file by
that name was on my computer. So, I ran McAfee virus scan and it
picked up no virus.

Explain that to me please. Someone. Anyone.
 
Answer this for me. McAfee notified me that I had a virus and it
could not be cleaned, deleted, quarantined or otherwise removed. So,
I went to "search" to find its location and when I searched it said
no file by that name was on my computer. So, I ran McAfee virus scan
and it picked up no virus.

Explain that to me please. Someone. Anyone.
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The phantom virus is McAfee itself?
Some people consider AOL the biggest virus.
Others swear Windows is the virus that won't go away.
 
From: <[email protected]>

| Answer this for me. McAfee notified me that I had a virus and it could
| not be cleaned, deleted, quarantined or otherwise removed. So, I went
| to "search" to find its location and when I searched it said no file by
| that name was on my computer. So, I ran McAfee virus scan and it
| picked up no virus.
|
| Explain that to me please. Someone. Anyone.

You didn't supply REAL information. What is the fully qualified name and path to the file
and what was the name of the infector that it was identified as ?

Basically, it sounds like the file was blocked and was never written. Thus, it did not
exist nor did it need to be quarantined.
 
On 25 Mar 2006 22:20:12 -0800, n
<[email protected]>
Answer this for me. McAfee notified me that I had a virus and it could
not be cleaned, deleted, quarantined or otherwise removed. So, I went
to "search" to find its location and when I searched it said no file by
that name was on my computer. So, I ran McAfee virus scan and it
picked up no virus.

Explain that to me please. Someone. Anyone.
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All that can happen if McAfee's web monitor picks up an incoming bad
guy. The file never really exists, because McAfee stopped the script
meant to load the file, OR it can't be deleted because McAfee itself
has it locked, and VirusScan doesn't find it because VirusScan's
on-demand scan perhaps isn't scanning the web cache. Generally McAfee
will stop the script from running so the file never gets downloaded.

But all that's pure conjecture that happens to fit the very general
description you've given. There are other possibilities. What you
were doing when "McAfee notified" you and the name of the "virus"
would be helpful. The name and location should be available in
McAfee's logs.

Carol
 
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