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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: Chineseboy on October 28, 2005, 05:35:34 AM

Title: Question about send new virus
Post by: Chineseboy on October 28, 2005, 05:35:34 AM

I send several new virus sample three days ago.But up to now I recieve no reply,who can tell me why .

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: galooma on October 28, 2005, 05:51:02 AM

Hi and welcome,
Im sure Avast! are thankful for your sample and appreciate the effort you have made but as a rule they dont respond to submissions all the time.
If you still have a sample of the virus and you want confirmation of what it is , try posting it here http://virusscan.jotti.org/de/ and scan it with a whole range of scanners .
good luck  :)

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: Eddy on October 28, 2005, 11:46:14 AM

Alwil only respond to new submission if they need/want additional information.

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: donki on October 29, 2005, 09:14:59 AM

I submitted a trojan 4 days ago to virus@avast.com and it doesn't look like they added it into the vps since then.  :o

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: galooma on October 29, 2005, 09:42:58 AM

Have you tried it at Jotti`s multi scanner?

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: Eddy on October 29, 2005, 09:59:54 AM

Alwil will add high risk threads immediatly, other things will be implemented in 'scheduled' updates of the vps. And the submitted samples must have a full version of the malware, if not they can not add detecting for it.

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: Lisandro on October 29, 2005, 02:59:36 PM

Quote from: donki on October 29, 2005, 09:14:59 AM

I submitted a trojan 4 days ago to virus@avast.com and it doesn't look like they added it into the vps since then.  :o

I see no reason to not be in the user side. I mean, shame on Alwil, sorry but detection is detection.
Hint: hire people  ;)

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: donki on October 30, 2005, 02:01:40 AM

Quote from: Cloussau on October 29, 2005, 09:42:58 AM

Have you tried it at Jotti`s multi scanner?

Sure did. I have these 2 bookmarked in favourites:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/
http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html

and they both showed no virus found for avast. antivir did alright in both tests though.

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: DavidR on October 30, 2005, 02:23:36 AM

Jotti should also pass virus samples on to those AVs that didn't detect it at the time when you uploaded it for testing.

Title: Re: Question about send new virus
Post by: Lisandro on October 30, 2005, 01:00:04 PM

Quote from: DavidR on October 30, 2005, 02:23:36 AM

Jotti should also pass virus samples on to those AVs that didn't detect it at the time when you uploaded it for testing.

Wow! That's very good...
I didn't know that... so it's the easiest way to submit files for analysis  8)