Recent Windows Upgrade Contained A Virus ?? ?

[Guest JKB 101]

On June 11, 2014,

Windows downloaded, & installed

half a dozen security-related Upgrades to

my Windows 7 64-bit system, &

within hours

my anti-virus program,

Rogers Online Protection (ROP) (actually Bit Defender),

alerted me that

it had detected

a virus (Gen:Variant.Kazy.361890) in

temp.edb buried in the

windows\softwaredistribution folder.

 

 

ROP declared

my computer was not virus-free, &

it could not clean it.

 

 

I immediately did a complete scan,

with the same ROP, &

nothing was found

(although 56k of items were 'Skipped').

 

 

Research online revealed that

the softwaredistribution folder is

used exclusively by Microsoft for

downloading Upgrades,

before they are installed.

 

 

Some remain there temporarily

even after they have been installed;

 

Currently it is 350MB.

 

 

I used W7's Disc Cleanup utility to

 

try to purge those old System files.

 

 

It suggested that it would, but

 

they appear to remain sitting there.

 

 

Some suggested I

 

turn automatic Windows Upgrade off temporarily, & then

make sure that folder is (temporarily) deleted,

 

before turning it back on because

 

that creates a new folder, but

 

Windows refuses to delete it

 

(claiming a file(s) are open elsewhere).

 

 

 

Any good advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

JKB

 

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