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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: lee16 on July 02, 2004, 04:12:36 PM

Title: viruses
Post by: lee16 on July 02, 2004, 04:12:36 PM

If i wanted to researh a certain virus is there anyware i can get detailed info on virus/mailware?

Title: Re:viruses
Post by: rloschmann on July 02, 2004, 04:49:44 PM

You can read this :

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=5373

Title: Re:viruses
Post by: Lisandro on July 02, 2004, 11:18:31 PM

Quote from: lee16 on July 02, 2004, 04:12:36 PM

If i wanted to researh a certain virus is there anyware i can get detailed info on virus/mailware?

I strongly suggest a Google search.

Title: Re:viruses
Post by: F4 on July 02, 2004, 11:56:09 PM

If avast detects something like this : Win32:Trojan-gen. {VC}, Win32:Trojan-gen. {UPX!}, Win32:Trojan-gen. {Other}, Trojan-gen. {Delphi}, VBS:Malware [Html], VBS:Generic-Copy, VBS:Malware [Encrypted], these mean that avast uses something called " Generic detection " to identify malware so you will never know its specific name that I think sometimes it makes thing so difficult to deal with what avast calls " Trojan-gen. {UPX!} ". ???

If you want to know that other antivirus calls what avast calls " Trojan-gen. {UPX!} you have to use the following online scanners.

Kaspersky : http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus.html
Dr.Web : http://www.dials.ru/english/www_av/
RAV : http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/indexn.php

Title: Re:viruses
Post by: Max M.Wachtel III on July 03, 2004, 07:27:57 PM

lee-
Just a note,I have a link on my site to virus encyclopedia.
-max