luhe lockscreen a

50Twuncle

I have just run an AVG antivirus scan and it has detected "luhe lockscreen .a" on my PC
I have googled this name and drawn a blank
Any ideas ?

penrhyn

loads of references to luhe lockscreen via Google.

50Twuncle

OK It was a "." in the wrong place
Is it safe to assume that AVG has disposed of it completely ?

waddler_8

You need to say exactly what was detected

eg:

C:\directory\folder\sub folder\filename.ext

50Twuncle

Luhe lockscreen .a

waddler_8

I meant what file, and in what path - as above.

Lockscreen is a ransomware type detection, so if you're not experiencing those kinds of issues, and AVG detected it in a scan, rather than a realtime detection, I'd bet it was a false positive.

50Twuncle

I think (hope) - that it was a false positive
Since my PC is still running as previously (slowly) and AVG has not detected it again (it is not in the vault either)
Is there an on-line scanner that I can use to double check ?

waddler_8

http://www.eset.co.uk/Antivirus-Utilities/Online-Scanner

50Twuncle

waddler_8 wrote: »

http://www.eset.co.uk/Antivirus-Utilities/Online-Scanner

Thanks - slightly worryingly - that site doesn't work for me
I can get the pop up page with SCAN NOW button - but that brings up a page with a "no entry" symbol in the top left corner and no more .....

waddler_8

Do you have Malwarebytes?

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

Update, run a quick scan.

50Twuncle

OK I have got ESET to run - it has found "a variant of Win32/Hiddenstart.A application" and it has only completed 25% of the full scan - does ESET get rid of any viruses or does it only detect them ?
I am also running malwarebytes to double check....