ADWARE.NAFAOZ NOT DETECTED !!!

[eaglewb]

Dear Avast forum,
this is to let you know that the Adware exploit has not been detect by your updated Avast! version 4.5 Professional !!!

Can you tell me why

I had to manually remove the Adware from the info's at the following URL:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.nafaoz.html

Regards.
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Paolo De Canio

[Eddy]

There is no security software that detects everything.
Avast's primarly job is to detect viruses.
To get/keep your system clean, you need multiple applications.
See the link in my signature and visit the malware removal section.

And if you think you have found something that Avast is not detecting, you can always send it to Alwil.
This way they can add detection for it to the VPS.

[eaglewb]

Before Manually remove the AD-WARE, I tried to scan my system with the updated tools:

1) Ad-Aware Professional
2) Spybot S&D
3) Microsoft AntiSpyware

without success !!!

What else I should try ?

Regards.

[DavidR]

HijackThis, it will show what is running on your system and using Eddy's HJT Log File Analyser should be your next port of call.

[eaglewb]

Dear All,
at this point the question is: do you know which is the best tool at the moment that is able to detect the spyware,ad-ware, etc. on the fly ?
I mean something like Microsoft Spyware ?

Thanks in advance !

Regards.

[Eddy]

Click on the link in my signature and see the malware removal section as well as the HijackThis section

[eaglewb]

Dear Eddy,
I need to have an always on tool (like MS Antispyware) listening for incoming treats.
I don't need a post removal tool.

Regards.

[Eddy]

You already have such a tool. It is called AVAST.
And if you read the manuals of the application in the malware removal section, you will see that there are several that can run resident also.

[eaglewb]

Eddy,
AVAST, as you know, did not work correctly (I sent an email to the support too).
The strange thing is that the AD-WARE.NAFAOZ was discovered on the 15th of January 2005, but the AVAST database was not updated !
Do you know why ?

Regards.

[Eddy]

Before Alwil can add a detection to the vps, they need to have the complete code of the malware.
It may very well be that it is detected with the next vps update.
Alwil releases them every 2 weeks, unless there is a huge thread, than it will be released asap

[Chief-ADFP]

www.webroot.com SpySweeper they redid their software, they cover everything even more then Spybot - Search & Destroy, with SpySweeper you get cover for.

Internet Explorer Shields
IE Favorites Shield
IE Home Page Shield
IE Search Page Shield
IE Hijack Shield

Host Files Shields
Common ad sites shield
Host file shield

Windows System Shield
Memory Shield
spy instillation shield
Windows massager service shield
(company's use more of not home users unless you have a network)

Startup Programs shield
Startup Shield.

it even take care of Trojan horses downloaders types it remove them totally.

i do a double check on Fridays: Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal, HijackThis, Spybot - Search & Destroy

stay on all the times when going through the INTERNET sites: Panicware-Pop-Up Stopper Professional, webroot-SpySweeper.

[RejZoR]

avast! is an antivirus. If the adware was found on 15 january 2005 then its a very small chance that they will add it to VPS. Only anti-spyware companies have rapid response for such stuff,not antiviruses and vice versa for other non adware threats.
For such you need to use specialized tools.

[eaglewb]

Dear All,
are there any spyware malware etc.. free tool with the functionality to autodetect the spywares-malwares on the fly ?

Regards.

[Eddy]

Yes there are as I have told you before.

And keep in mind that when it comes to computers and security it is always YOU (the user) who is the weekest link.