Norton Anti-virus keeps finding what it calls the WS.Reputation.1 virus every day and removes it. It keeps coming back and the two dll files seem to always be in the Astropulse file location in C:\ProgramData\BOINC\Slots\#.

Can anyone tell me if brook.dll and brook.cal.dll are part of Setihome code or do I really have a hidden infection that keeps resurrecting itself?

Thanks, Paul

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Those .dll files are part of the GPU processing code for ATi/AMD graphics cards; you are experiencing a false-positive.

It is highly recommended to exclude C:\ProgramData\BOINC from your virus scanner to avoid these types of false-positives. It is very unlikely that you will ever get a virus in that location (it would have to infiltrate the BOINC system), and even if you did, the entire system is sandboxed to mitigate damage or data loss to your system.

To date, no virus has ever been distributed or infected machines using the BOINC framework as an attack vector, likely due to the very small return on investment to hackers in the number of zombie machines they would get out of infecting machines.