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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: padhyemilind on November 28, 2004, 08:03:33 PM
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While downloading Xplite, something came riding piggyback and made my WinXp unstable. Some porno program took control over my Control Panel and started running a blue film. I used Avast, Adaware etc. but of no avail, till someone suggested "ewido security suite", which detected and removed 12 trojans+virus+malaware+cookies. I can understand about malaware+cookies but Avast leaving out trojans like "Qhost" is unexplicable. Now my system is good but is Avast still dependable?
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It is not likely that XPLite caused the malware. Very likely something else was responsible for it.
QHost takes advantage of a "object type" vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. Exploits were discovered in september/october 2003. (more info) (http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci930281,00.html?newsEL=10.17)
1] There is no application, nor will there ever be, that can detect and remove all malware.
2] Avast's main priority is detecting viruses, not all malware.
3] which detected and removed 12 trojans+virus+malaware+cookies
trojans and viruses are malware.
Perhaps the definations HERE (http://212.204.166.18/smf/index.php?topic=2.0) will help you to understand the differences.