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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: farjsloan on April 07, 2009, 10:37:39 PM

Title: Any plans for backdoor.ghostnet detection in Avast?
Post by: farjsloan on April 07, 2009, 10:37:39 PM

For AVAST Team: Any plans for detection/prevention of GhostRAT aka Ghostnet.

For all others:

Details

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/937

Mind Blowing video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz-gg8hxaVQ

Google Search GhostRAT and Poison Ivy (apparent kernal)

Title: Re: Any plans for backdoor.ghostnet detection in Avast?
Post by: Dan-o-Bundy on April 09, 2009, 01:56:37 AM

It's already implemented - I found a website offering the Gh0st Rat (http://www.opensc.ws/c-c/2962-open-source-gh0st-trojan.html).

As soon as you try to download the files Avast will sound the alarm.