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Title: BV: Malware-gen?
Post by: yaslaw on February 23, 2010, 02:50:14 PM

Today I rescanned some files from my chest, and one of them is detected right now as a BV: Malware-gen.
Is it behavioral /heuristic detecion or not??

Regards

Title: Re: BV: Malware-gen?
Post by: Milos on February 23, 2010, 03:53:02 PM

Quote from: yaslaw on February 23, 2010, 02:50:14 PM

Today I rescanned some files from my chest, and one of them is detected right now as a BV: Malware-gen.
Is it behavioral /heuristic detecion or not??

Regards

No it isn't. It's generic detection.

Milos

Title: Re: BV: Malware-gen?
Post by: yaslaw on February 23, 2010, 05:38:49 PM

So what BV prefix means ?