Virus or not??

[akillias]

Sympatico security manager detected the following

c:\acer\empowering technology\eRecovery\RTMBR2.bin\

which it thinks is an image file of a boot sector virus.

I bought an acer recently and was wondering if it was a virus or not.

My computer has had trouble restarting recently under Windows Vista for some reason.

What should I do?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I found this, for scanning individual files. Cos it could be false positive, this runs through several virus scans.
http://www.virustotal.com
Good luck cleaning your computer.

P.S. Also, google the program -- there should be article on it somewhere.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

That looks like a false positive on your virus scanner's side. With that being said, I still dont like programs that show up as false positives because usually that means they exibit some virus-like behaviour.

 

[akillias]

I did google, but I didn<t find anything.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

The file in question belongs to Acers software thats installed by default on most of their new laptops.