[abrogard]

I'm trying to track down why AVG is using all my CPU cycles (read a thread about it here) and I've got it doing a complete scan.

It finds a Trojan "VB.IDT"

Sounds good? Sounds promising? That's what I thought at first.

But the files it finds the Trojan in are TMPEncExpress.zip and TMPEncExpress\Setup.exe

The point is: I use neither. They never get run.

Question: What's the importance of Trojans or Virus's or Adware, Malware, found in files that never get run? Nothing, surely?

p.s.

Unless it DOES get run somehow, by something I don't know about. How can I log every .exe that gets run by my machine?

[Phantom010]

Personaly, I wouldn't want them on my computer, either open or not.

Why don't you delete those files and be done with them?

[lunarlander]

Well, it is still better to delete the file now, or at least rename the file to something like VIRUS-xxxxx.zip Thats so you remember that it contains a virus in the future.