Sbav on Windows 8.1 laods but never runs

Hello ReggieB,

would remove the virus but after reboot it would come back

in conjunction with the other detections this looks like some as yet undetected component. In that case SBAV is no more "powerful" than SESC. Did you submit the PUA to Labs? One common scenario is that a piece of malicious content from a web page slips through, installs itself (depending on the user's rights) in the user or system context, dropping  "other stuff". This "other stuff" often triggers additional detections, most of it is blocked and potentially cleaned up or cleanable but as long as the original threat isn't detected and removed the "infection" will recur at boot or logon time.

After Labs have analysed the sample and issued an IDE for it (which takes only a few hours normally) the threat will be detected and cleaned as we're used to.

Christian

Hello ReggieB,

would remove the virus but after reboot it would come back

in conjunction with the other detections this looks like some as yet undetected component. In that case SBAV is no more "powerful" than SESC. Did you submit the PUA to Labs? One common scenario is that a piece of malicious content from a web page slips through, installs itself (depending on the user's rights) in the user or system context, dropping  "other stuff". This "other stuff" often triggers additional detections, most of it is blocked and potentially cleaned up or cleanable but as long as the original threat isn't detected and removed the "infection" will recur at boot or logon time.

After Labs have analysed the sample and issued an IDE for it (which takes only a few hours normally) the threat will be detected and cleaned as we're used to.

Christian