Is Avast saying these are viruses?

pennypincher2013

Just done a full scan with Avast. I come up with the 2 false positives it found a while back. See here: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4440181=

It has come back with over 100 different things. An example is: google\chrome\user data\default\cache\f_000675>_host\jshelper.js

or

install flashplayer.

The status for all of them say Error: Archive password is protected (42056)
All of these are on one users account (not the main one).
They don't look like viruses so has Avast picked up false positives again? Nothing happens when Apply button is clicked.

The 2 false positives from before are the same - Win32:Dropper-gen

waddler_8

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

The status for all of them say Error: Archive password is protected (42056)

Basically think of an archive as a file (or files) within a file (eg .zip .cab etc). For avast to scan the file(s) that are within the archive, it has to first extract them... then scan them individually... and them put them back together in the original file (archive).

If the archive is protected with a password that must be input before the files can be extracted, then Avast can't extract the file(s) to scan it/them as it doesn't know the password.

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

An example is: google\chrome\user data\default\cache\f_000675>_host\jshelper.js

http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

All of these are on one users account (not the main one)

Not this exactly, but in essence.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/protecting-cached-user-data

pennypincher2013

Thank you. I understood your explaination but the info in the links, I'm not 100% sure of that. I gonna blame the cold Ive got

So Avast wasn't able to scanned these files so has flagged them up?

Am I right to assume these files are not viruses or have a virus attached to them?

waddler_8

Yes and yes.