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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: shai on August 25, 2004, 08:49:11 AM

Title: Does Avast! 4 Home clean this virii...?
Post by: shai on August 25, 2004, 08:49:11 AM

Dear Support Team and Forum members :)

I wanted to know if Alwil/Avast! have a list of viruses that we can search to find out if a virus we are looking for is able to be cleaned by Avast!?

Cheers,
Shai

Title: Re:Does Avast! 4 Home clean this virii...?
Post by: RejZoR on August 25, 2004, 09:54:00 AM

Its available in Pro Edition,but list is not full because avast! has very powerful generic detection which cannot be listed by seperate malware names.

Title: Re:Does Avast! 4 Home clean this virii...?
Post by: Vlk on August 25, 2004, 10:09:43 AM

shai, it depends on what exactly is meant by cleaning. If it's a full removal (including registry associations, startup entries, associated files etc etc) or not.

Also, please note that a vast majority of today's viruses are in fact worms - in which case the infection cannot be "removed" from the files as the files themselves are the infection.

avast features the VRDB which is able to help cleaning many infections, provided it has been generated before the virus hit.


Cheers,
Vlk

Title: Re:Does Avast! 4 Home clean this virii...?
Post by: Eddy on August 25, 2004, 11:58:27 AM

You can see HERE (http://www.avast.com/eng/viruses/vps_history.html) what is added in the latest vps versions. If you are interested.