Hello,
I just gave up to send anything to Alwil as it is a waste of time... When they add theses files to the VPS, it will not be needed anymore, because theses trojan will not be more in circulation...
These specific threats (trojans bankers from Brazil), have a total different behavior from the rest of the threats.. They usually dont survive more than a week before it gets modified and became a variant of it self... If the antivirus is not capable to update it self fast as the new variants coming, it will not protect you at all againts it... And I mean really at all...
I have a lot of samples of this kind of threat... I sent 3 samples, 4 days ago to grisoft... (The other samples are already detected by AVG). And guess what? All the 3 are now detected with the update available today... This kind of thing, makes me hunt malware to send to grisoft... Cause I know that my hobby (work) will not be an waste of time...
An study made by winco, said that the trojans production in Brazil grow up 1184% from the last year... And I ask... How to combat this massive attack? With fast updates.... If it takes more than a week to add a single sample... Please.. forget it.. Dont need to add anymore...The damage was done and now theres a new variant running.. the old one is out...
Please, I am not saying that avast sucks, or its inferior product compared to AVG (Its relative), no AV is perfect...I believe that Avast have the most complete set of features, good innovations and have everything to be in the Top... But its not just because the most important thing (Update virus database) is not take so serius as it should be... Or At least serious as other things in Avast... Like its features that are always created..
But AVG, works in other way... It doesnt have any extra features, just the basic... But takes too serious its database updates... Even being poor in features, its virus database can stop virus from infect your computer... Theres no point in have a lot of features like Avast have, if no feature have the signature to stop the virus... It will infect your computer anyway...
Its a mistake to think that AVG is weak in detection rate... Is far aways from the winners, but it is side by side with Avast...(Of course excluding the adwares that Avast gets and AVG nor even know what its means...
I mean just virus)
Thanks for reading....And I hope that Avast weak up and see that Virus Database is the most important thing in a Antivirus, and not its extra features..
By the way, I like Avast!
Elminster