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Title: VRDB and Win32: Trojan-Gen
Post by: Tonanet on August 21, 2005, 05:49:12 AM

Hello guys,

I have two questions that I could not find the answer here....  ???

They are:  ;D

1- Giving the name win32:trojan-gen for a lot of different malwares, without it being a generic/heuristic detection, being only a normal signature, and adding more samples to this category from time to time, and not always like any other malware, brings any kind of Advantage to Avast? Any specific reason to name different malwares with the same name? I dont understand why this trojan gens are not added with the same frequency that a virus with other name is added...

2- Please, tell me if I am right: Being the VRDB the only way to recover a legit file that was infected, if I install avast in any machine that is already infected with an infecting virus like lets say win32: Tenga, Avast will not be able to heal the files? I should use other antivirus to clean the infection and then install avast to prevent future infections (uninstalling the other of course) ?  ???

Thanks for your time,

Elminster ;D

Title: Re: VRDB and Win32: Trojan-Gen
Post by: Eddy on August 21, 2005, 05:51:43 AM

1) Gen is short for Generic. So those are Generic Trojans. Not really dangerous, but they do need to be detected and removed.