Had "Windows Police Pro" virus--- Combofix used to cleanse PC...

[Earth Bound Misfit]

I got help from a friend of a friend, not a professional, but extremely knowledgable on the subject of virus/malware removal. My Dell notebook, Win XP SP2 is now clean (I hope), but here's the problem: Of the many tools/programs etc used to rid my PC of the nasty rootkit that had infected it, one POWERFUL tool was used, ComboFix, which explicitly stated in it's disclaimer should "never be used in an unsupervised environment". Long story short, after we rid the machine of the nasties, we ran some programs to "clean up" the tools we used, un-installed programs, updated out of date drivers, cleaned out temp folders/unused programs, etc. One of the things we did was to run AVG 8.5 (Free) in "safe" mode, BEFORE we un-installed ComboFix. AVG "found" 10 items, which now reside in my AVG virus vault.

Here's my question: can these items just be safely deleted from the AVG Virus Vault?

I hope this is not a dumb question, obviously I'm a computer spazz here. If any of the good people here can advise, it would be much appreciated. I found a lot of info @ Bleeping Computer. com, but read there that if anyone posted any topics re: ComboFix, without having been instructed to use it by one of the techies there, the topic would be ignored.

[Why Syzygy]

1. You can delete them.

But you should wait a while and make sure your computer is running normally.

http://forums.techguy.org/general-security/722806-solved-avg-virus-vault-empty.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080128062744AAmJevH


d) AVG Virus Vault Environment

Every detected infected object should be moved to the AVG Virus Vault. Within the AVG Virus Vault you can explore the object, delete it, or heal and restore the object if the cure has been implemented already. Also, you can send the object to the AVG Anti-Virus vendor for in-depth analysis.
http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/lookup+1/980C915CEACA43D8CA25705F0004AD18

If you want to make sure your registry is okay, and scan for any leftover bugs, use the complete Windows Live OneCare free online scanner. It can run for 3-5 hours.
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. Thanks, I had planned on doing that (waiting a while)

So far, so good.:-) The Windows Live OneCare free online scanner is a good suggestion, thanks for the link. I downloaded Secunia Online Software Inspector and have found it to be very useful. Some other free programs I have kept are Revo Uninstaller, MBAM & HJT to go along with AVG & AdAware which I had before the "attack".