I did what was requested, I opened my virtual machine, did a scan and found that the following files were infected with the Win32-hupigon-ONX [trj] XP Home edition-000001.vmdk XP Home edition-000002.vmdk xp Home edition.vmdk I then make a directory in my C:/ drive and then created a file and copied it until I had only 1 MB left on my virtual machine. I then deleted the directory and then restarted my machine. I then scanned again and found the following files infected with the same virus: XP Home edition-000001.vmdk XP Home edition-000002.vmdk xp Home edition.vmdk I am at a loss for what to do now. Any suggetions?

Namely, a tendency towards false positives, including a particular system file that has been sporadically identified as a “decompression bomb” repeatedly since at least 2009. However, including adware in their anti-virus software really crosses the line.

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I have deleted the.vmdk file from my MAC, I can restore it via timemachine, not knowing if I have a problem or not, I decided to delete it until I have this issue resolved. All my scans within the Virtual machine are done as “through scans” Setting are for all directories. When I am in the virtual machine and scanning, I scan all files including those that are shared between my MAC and the Virtual PC, the shared documents are in a directory on my MAC called “documents” and in there is a subdirectory called virtual machines which contains the.vmdk file. So that is how the scan of them is being done. I have some further information; I did a couple of other things to see if I have a virus of not and I am more confused now.

Hallo, it's really strange a bit, but i have an explanation - it might be some part of swapfile or hibernation file. When shutting the system down, it was stored into swap, and thus detectable later, surviving also when you started your vm again. I posted the string that's used for detection, so you can have a look using some hexa editor with hexa-string scan ability to locate it inside that vmdk to get a clue where it does belong (or you can boot a live linux with that vmdk as a second harddrive and do hexedit over /dev/hdxxx). But probably it's NOT infected, as it seems. I am not very computer savy, so this might be a stupid question - I assume you would use the Hexedit from the Mac side to scan the.vmdk with out it running on VMFusion - right. I do not have linux so can not do your last suggestion so I have to go with the first suggestion.