virus: TPE encrypted??

I bought something through SLexchange and my Antivirus program (eTrust EZAntivirus) detected an infection called "TPE encrypted."

Filename: bed834b0-c666-0e1c-d988-917ff9956e22
location: C:\Documents and Settings\[my name]\Application Data\SecondLife\cache\textures\b\

It's been quarantined, should I be concerned?

I had ezTrust AV for awhile........came free with my ISP. I picked up a virus and it alerted me and placed the file in quarentine like you. When you click on the options you should get a link to a website that will instruct you on how to cure it or what you can do to protect yourself. A real pain in the butt as far as can see. I switched to another free and recommended antivirus program called AVG. Do a Google search to the download site or go to kimkommando.com for a link.

But, as long as the file is in quarintine you should be safe from any further infection. But the problem is that you may already have the infection. I wouldn't sit on the problem long if I were you. Check out some free online AV scans and rescan your computer......second opinion if you will. But get it off your computer as soon as possible. Then I would suggest getting another, better anti virus program.

It's very unlikely that this was actually a virus. What likely happened was a false positive: this texture in your cache happened to have a sequence of data that looked a lot like a virus to your virus scanner. It's possible that an extremely clever virus could live in your cache folder and name itself to look like an SL cache entry... so I went in-world and tried that texture key to see if it was a valid texture. It is.

Also, quarantining the file won't have any negative impact on SL, so you need not worry at all. You didn't have a virus.

I agree with Lex, it's probably perfectly fine. I *do* kinda wonder how beefy your machine is that you can get decent performance with an antivirus and SL running at the same time <grin>.

I run my anti virus 100% of the time..........if I need to turn off my AV for any reason I physically unhook my connection to my ISP. And if any program requires me shutting down my AV to use I uninstall it and find another program that does not require that.....or live without that program. SL run fine.