Thread: W32/wecorl.a virus

I am having Windows XP operating system installed on my computer. McAfee shows a false-positive detection of the W32/wecorl.a virus when I installed 5958 of the DAT file is used. Kindly provide me the correct logical solution to resolve the above issue. Any kind of information on the above issue would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced.

To manually repair a computer that encounters this issue, follow these simple steps:

• Boot the PC in safe mode by pressing F8 before the Windows splash screen come outs.

• Log on to the computer. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL, and after that click Start Windows Task Manager.

• On the File menu, click New Task (Run).

• Type cmd.exe, and after that hit ENTER.

• Rename the Avvscan.dat file to prevent the Svchost.exe file from being deleting by McAfee until an updated DAT file is installed.

ren “%CommonProgramFiles%\McAfee\Engine\avvscan.dat” avvscan.old

• Restore the Svchost.exe file to the system32 directory by running the following command.

Copy %systemroot%\system32\dllcache\svchost.exe %systemroot%\system32\

• After that, press ENTER.

• Reboot the pc to take effect.

1. Download the EXTRA.ZIP file and extract the EXTRA.DAT file.

2. Boot the computer in Safe Mode with networking enabled.

3. Copy EXTRA.DAT to C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\Engine.

4. Launch Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\WINDOWS\system32:

5. Double-click Quarantine Manager Policy, and after that click the Manager tab.

6. Right-click the detection and select Restore.

7. Restart your system normally.