Ah. The annoyance started about 30 min. ago. AVAST!, Malwarebyte’s excellent software for detecting/removing malware, started to detect tons of tons of trojans, especially Win32:Delf-MZG, like crazy. I took it seriously and started a full scan. Then, it recommended to do a memory scan after a reboot. I did it. I chose to remove all the suspicious ones. I think it detected over 30. Most of the files were audio/video-related. Some dlls for SUPER (video conversion software) and GoldWave (audio editor).

I took a note …. Win30: Delf-MZG…. did a google search after the reboot. It sounds like it’s the update from AVAST! has some problem. Some people started to discussed it about an hour ago over at Yahoo Answers, and one poster suggested to go to the AVAST user forum. Overall, it sounds like a lot of them are just false positives but I’ll keep an eye on it. I’m heading to the AVAST/Malware bytes’ site right now.

It’s really annoying. It’s happening for many people today, Dec. 2nd, 2009 at around 10 p.m., U.S. Central time.

Update
Guess it was too late. It looks like all of the alerts were false positive. See this. I tried to use GoldWave and Super but they didn’t work because I chose to delete suspicious files. The deleted files are not in the recycle bin, so I need to reinstall those programs. So far, my laptop itself is working fine.

So, ignore the AVAST warnings and take NO action. Do not choose to delete files!