I usually have my Vodafone Connect Card plugged into my laptop at all times and use it occasionally. Today, I double-clicked on its icon and my Avast antivirus popped out instantly advising me that it contains a virus (win32:Agent-ATQ) which I moved to the Chest as recommended. Then, the Vodafone software prompted me for a reinstall and asked to insert the Vodafone installation CD, which I did.

The re-installation did not work at first, but after a few phone calls with Vodafone support (who obviously told me that the virus is not in Vodafone's software), I managed to reinstall the software. However the virus warning appeared again.

The first thing I did then was to run a scan with my Avast antivirus. It found 2 occurrences of

Sign of "Win32:Agent-ATQ [Trj]" has been found in "C:\Program Files\Vodafone\Vodafone Mobile Connect\UpdateX.dll" file.

and also

Sign of "Win32:Agent-ATQ [Trj]" has been found in "E:\Software\VMC\program files\Vodafone\Vodafone Mobile Connect\UpdateX.dll" file.

the latter being on Vodafone's installation CD, which was inserted in my CD drive at that time, and being scanned by Avast.

I then ran the scan at boot time and it found 2 more occurrences of the dll in C:\System volume information\_restore{5432 ...etc}. I put everything in the Chest.

Is Vodafone's CD infected? Anybody else experiencing this?

At this stage, I have removed the card and the CD from my laptop, and I am reluctant to put them back in.