Who says Avast! is poor with new threats?

[TrueIndian]

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e34d490ad1e724727bae93c467251ca394c227bd3c6812585ac903ef6492b8aa/analysis/1410328461/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7797baf939209f45ba5f3ba8ac7764ba2c493aae0eb4d0af9cbc8c5b29d976a2/analysis/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0fb512aee133030c193b2eab9aad311c09006a45dd61419f2818be76d756cf70/analysis/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/86cfad422997c583388558a099bc204f9986afeb62a0a192f3faf83d2afc1902/analysis/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/283b712f27430a188570bf5c302819f0e5a7306424485fa64577009d9d496a35/analysis/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5e5212465ab711aac21d0bbfc8ba842a765779ad1235b7b094194de6a30357fb/analysis/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7178fe13e49dc2a1e57f200329512f26ab0ce6e25b578abbe363e0e241f6a74d/analysis/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/23917859eb913397c9f89fdeac77700d70295c8f739334719be61da31b505804/analysis/

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ea405ae173a4a3e8cec33aae2d3c2def87e354bc15b9b8996cedd02502fecb59/analysis/

and many more:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/user/true_indian/submissions/   

Perhaps mention it in the post that one should be logged in to be able to view it.

The more I hunt the more I have started to believe in the improvement..By the time the scores reach 15/54 on VT avast is already on it!!! I have had alot of newly reported threats caught by filerep in just 1 hour of sending it! We seem to have catching up on the dreaded VBS malware from USB and even generic/widespread viruses.

Rejzor,Pol,Pondus,steven,spywar and essex this is for you guys to have a look...evo-gen and filerep are carrying avast! generic database much further!!! Our reaction times are much much faster now. 

[Secondmineboy]

Will take a look when im home but i also noticed this on Malwaretips samples, they got about 50 to 90 percent detection in about 2 hours, only on scan.

[TrueIndian]

Will take a look when im home but i also noticed this on Malwaretips samples, they got about 50 to 90 percent detection in about 2 hours, only on scan.

Yep,we are improving all the time 

[Secondmineboy]

Small error here: https://www.virustotal.com/uk/file/283b712f27430a188570bf5c302819f0e5a7306424485fa64577009d9d496a35/analysis/

Avast does not detect that file.

[TrueIndian]

Small error here: https://www.virustotal.com/uk/file/283b712f27430a188570bf5c302819f0e5a7306424485fa64577009d9d496a35/analysis/

Avast does not detect that file.

It blocked by our cloud,check my comment at VT link 

[Secondmineboy]

Havent seen that

[TrueIndian]

Havent seen that

We had a defination update recently that had only dyna rules,see:
http://www.avast.com/virus-update-history

I Think we are ready or gearing up for beta 2

[Secondmineboy]

Maybe today since its still wednesday.

Also they want to get these created automatically at some point.

[TrueIndian]

Maybe today since its still wednesday.

Also they want to get these created automatically at some point.

Yep! As I said we keep getting better with time.

[polonus]

Hi True Ind and Steven Winderlich,

Here you can clearly establish what the weak spots in what av solution's specfic malware detection are:
http://worldguide.travel/clean-mx/md5.php?GData=Gen:Variant.Kazy.52675

polonus

[TrueIndian]

Hi Guys,

I found few some more of such samples that avast was great on detecting these hard nuts so I will post 1 of them here:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d3b147dac2bff5fb7a944b4e4d56a08627c6b6ead083677a6828e7a24324fe33/analysis/1410493670/

Its facebook hack.exe 

[polonus]

The source of this Hack should also be with bad web rep: https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/facebook-password-hacker.soft112.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=popup & http://www.webutations.info/go/review/facebook-password-hacker.soft112.com

Here I get no results: https://www.virustotal.com/nl/url/d222f11803553ec798fc907fb11f81796c8b78e281da439e392a9140b17615d3/analysis/1410511306/  (two trackers there - e.g. facebook tracker

Also consider: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://facebook-password-hacker.soft112.com (risk)
About facebook tracking:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/what-you-can-do-about-facebook-tracking-1407263246
Lionk Article By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER.
Privacy-wise Facebooktracking works like the Flagellants in history two steps forward to take another step back.

Damian

[Lisandro]

evo-gen and filerep are carrying avast! generic database much further!!! Our reaction times are much much faster now. 

Thanks for sharing your personal experience and let keeping both eyes and mouth opened about it

[polonus]

Then what about this detection?
Is it beyond avast!'s scope?
This is a suspicious page
Result for  2014-09-12 12:01:09 UTC
Website: htxp://down.go.co.kr
Checked URL: htxp://down.go.co.kr/dbgoresetfiles/dbgotoolbarreset_home.exe
Blacklist URL Details:
Blacklisted checked url.  Suspected of malicious activity or distributing of malware.
See: https://www.virustotal.com/nl/url/bd090d49869dac95b913a8068c811aebc95c702e41c773fb1b740a83a8193f6e/analysis/
File detection: https://www.virustotal.com/nl/file/e3cc9f0e27f8da93eed7ede5f5ee48b0f1d162043c6b42c7cc782fba41c76acf/analysis/1409119840/

Missing avast!'s detection.

pol

[Secondmineboy]

File is detected by Avast