Hi everyone and Merry Christmas,

I have AVG free edition on my pc. When the scan has been running it keeps telling me that shell32.dll has changed. It doesn't tell me what it is or how to fix it, if it does need fixing. It does seem to make a big deal out of it though.
Could anyone tell me what this dll does and what I should do about it as I have no idea on either count.
Thank you in advance for your help in this matter,

Ange

Hello Ange, Merry Christmas to you too

I just did some research on this, and found this topic on AVG's forum:

All Users

It is normal that AVG shows that files, the MBR or Boot record to have changed. These are done during normal maintainance, when you or windows updates files or have had to correct errors on the drive. The only time that you should worry is if they also show as infected.

To get AVG to quit showing them as changed, open the AVG Test Center, click the F3 key on your keyboard and tell it to confirm the changes. If it still shows something as changed after this.. delete the file named AVG7QT.DAT in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\avg7\ folder and AVG will rebuild it the next time it is run.

The %ALLUSERSPROFILE% is different for each version of Windows. The following are the typical locations for XP and Win9x

XP - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\avg7
Win9x -C:\Windows\All Users\Application Data\avg7



Another method suggested by DEStucki to remove the MBR changed alert if the above method didn't help...

Go to the System Area Test settings

Select the "Remove MBR" button to remove the MBR from the list of items in the System Area test list

Click on OK so that the list has been up dated

Now go back into the System Area Test settings and push the "Default" button to put the MBR back in the list.



So basically Ange, as long as it doesn't also say the file is infected, you are good to go

Dear Cowburn,

Thank you very much for your help. I'll try this straight away as it's been fetching it up for the last few days.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Ange

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