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Sophos Antivirus wont open and I have virus attack / threat

BigAL

Hi Guys can anyone enlighten me please.

My other laptop on switch on gives an virus threat message of

Threat MAL/FakeAvHm-A

Threat source

http://www.google.co.uk/search?

Sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSEG_enGB356GB360&q=sophos

The request location contained malicious content and was blocked from downloading.

Any ideas of what it is?, How serious it is? and how I can get sophos AV to start, to sort it out.

Cheers

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    Hello BigAL,

    The request location contained malicious content and was blocked from downloading

    You're saying that you get this message at startup (i.e. before opening a browser)? Reading the description for Mal/FakeAvHm-A I'd say that you have at least some setting in the registry or a program shortcut which tries to access the "dirty" page.

    Do you get it as pop up from the Sophos icon? But you can't open the UI (which version, BTW)?

    You should scan the computer with SAV32CLI (see the article for details).

    HTH

    Christian

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