Avast WEBforum

Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: softwareguy on June 13, 2004, 01:55:36 AM

Title: Stadard Shileld & heuristics [WAS:suspic.wav?]
Post by: softwareguy on June 13, 2004, 01:55:36 AM

When is this WAV file used by Avast?
"*sound* CAUTION: Potential infection was detected."
I always hear virfound.wav instead.
"*sound* WARNING: There is a virus on your computer."

Title: Re:suspic.wav?
Post by: Vlk on June 13, 2004, 09:52:26 AM

It's called suspic.wav. The old file possible.wav was removed from the distribution as it wasn't used anyway.

Title: Re:suspic.wav?
Post by: softwareguy on June 13, 2004, 09:55:01 AM

 ??? ??? ???

Title: Re:suspic.wav?
Post by: igor on June 13, 2004, 08:00:51 PM

I believe the sound should be used for heuristic - when a suspicious (but not clearly infected) message is received/sent.

Title: Re:suspic.wav?
Post by: softwareguy on June 14, 2004, 03:35:44 AM

Does the standard shield have heuristic detection capabilities?

Title: Re:Stadard Shileld & heuristics [WAS:suspic.wav?]
Post by: Vlk on June 14, 2004, 09:30:36 AM

The Standard Shield features the same detection capabilities/modules as the on-demand scan. That is, it has all the generic detection stuff etc. but no code emulation mode. So it depends on what you call heuristics -- that's a very vague word now used for many things...

Vlk