If it were me, I'd submit the file(s) to http://www.virustotal.com and
see what they have to say.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Oliver Schwabedissen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running clamav 0.94.2 on a Gentoo Linux system. Today I scanned my whole
> file system which also contains an ntfs partition with Windows XP (mounted
> using fuse/ntfs-3g). I rarely boot this Windows partition but since it is
> more vulnerable than my Linux system I'm scanning it anyway.
>
> Today clamav suddenly found several infections with Worm.Pinit-4 on this
> partition:
>
> /windows/C/WINDOWS/$hf_mig$/KB890859/SP2QFE/user32.dll: Worm.Pinit-4 FOUND
> /windows/C/WINDOWS/$hf_mig$/KB925902/SP2QFE/user32.dll: Worm.Pinit-4 FOUND
> /windows/C/WINDOWS/ServicePackFiles/i386/user32.dll: Worm.Pinit-4 FOUND
> /windows/C/WINDOWS/$NtServicePackUninstall$/user32.dll: Worm.Pinit-4 FOUND
> /windows/C/WINDOWS/system32/user32.dll: Worm.Pinit-4 FOUND
>
> Therefore I scanned all of /windows/C/WINDOWS from a WinXP installation
> running in a virtual machine under Linux using a current version of AVG Free.
> AVG Free didn't find any infection at all.
>
> I didn't boot this supposedly infected WinXP for at least 2 or 3 month.
>
> Is it possible that clamav reports a false positive? Or doesn't AVG Free not
> yet discover this infection?
>
> Worm.Pinit-4 was added with daily update 8965 (02/08/09):
> Submission-ID: 6467818
> Sender: Paul
> Added: Worm.Pinit-4
> Virus name alias: Trojan.Win32.Patched.bb (Kaspersky AVP)
>
> --
> Ciao,
>        Oliver
>
> GPG Public Key available at http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net
> Key fingerprint = 3264 280C 05B1 572F 3F0B  42B8 1E7B 2D9D 063B D507
> Just listening to: Faithless - Bring My Family Back (feat. S. Setlur) (Bravo
> Hits 25, 1999)
>
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