Erehwon wrote:

> Has anyone else seen this problem?  I use Ad-Aware as on-demand scanner and 
> have Norton Security Suite ("free" version from Comcast) as real time 
> scanner.  After updating to Ad-Aware 11, Norton started detecting 
> "W32.Sality.W" in a temp file in the Ad-Aware program folder on every scan. 
> Each time it said it had removed the threat and requested reboot to complete 
> the removal process.  Next scan it finds it again.  Nothing found by 
> Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, or Ad-Aware itself.  After 6 or 8 times I finally 
> uninstalled Ad-Aware and Norton hasn't found anything since.  I'm assuming 
> this was a false positive but haven't seen any reports of a similar problem. 
> I'll probably wait a week to be sure problem doesn't return before trying to 
> re-install Ad-Aware.

Submit to virustotal.com to get an idea if anyone else detects the file
as malware.  If not, report the false positive to Symantec.
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