- VBS:Malware-gen Description. VBS:Malware-gen is a risky and foxy Trojan horse programmed to corrupt your system files and trigger security bugs to give pathway for hacker to invade you PC to steal confidential information about you.
- Feb 24, 2017 Malware Removal Assistance For Windows Malware Removal Assistance For Mobile Malware Removal Assistance For Mac. Security News Technology News Hardware News. Vbs-malware gen found by avast in start up scan. Thread starter agent19; Start date Feb 22, 2017. Forgot to include deleted avast and am using malwarebytes as my.
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I was running an Avast scan and I found Malwaregen[trj] in the utorrent section. I never used utorrent. Never. And suddenly this comes up. Does this mean someone was spying on me through a rootkit?
Malwarebytes never showed anything. However, the interesting thing is when I ran malwarebytes, it said 'scanning adware', etc. And in-between, there comes 'scanning trojan'. And it comes up with nothing.
Avast says that it couldn't scan 18 files or something. Is my Macbook hacked? Is someone spying on me?
And by the way, I did install utorrent.
schroeder♦VBS Malware Gen is malicious virus which keeps attacking our PC and it isn’t easy to remove just by normal scan of Avast Antivirus. Avast Antivirus easily detect VBS Malware Gen virus threat but it isn’t easy to remove.
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closed as off-topic by tlng05, Xander, Matthew, wireghoul, Steve Dodier-LazaroAug 16 '16 at 17:16
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It might be more probable that you downloaded a torrent that had some malware in it. I doubt the guys over at uTorrent would risk putting malware in their binaries :) (unless you downloaded uTorrent from an unofficial source).
A trojan can be used for spying, but more often than not, unless it is a targeted attack, it usually means other things such as stealing your credentials, stealing files, adding your computer to a botnet to mine bitcoins or click ads etc.
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Antiviruses could be wrong. But better safe than sorry. Unless you can eliminate the threat, you might want to consider reinstalling your Mac OS.
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