JAVA Bytverify.A not detected

[beast99]

I did a Housecall online scan & found the JAVA Bytverify. A Trojan on my computer. 3 files involved 1 Blackbox.class file & 2 VerifierBug.class files. Kaspersky confirmed.
No harm was done because I had the Microsoft patch.
The shield was set to scan all files on read & write & the on-demand scanner didn't detect  the trojan either.
Using AVAST Home 4.1.289.

[MWassef]

welcome to the forum beast99  
ByteVerify is not a virus, but rather a method to exploit a security vulnerability in the Microsoft Virtual Machine..
read about it at this page:
http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virus.aspx?ID=36725
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.byteverify.html

[.: Mac :.]

ByteVerify is not a virus, but rather a method to exploit a security vulnerability in the Microsoft Virtual Machine..
read about it at this page:

it is a trojan horse so avast should still detect it.  

[Waldo]

it is a trojan horse so avast should still detect it.  

Hi Mac, What kind of program is Avast ? > that's wright > Anti-virus scanner.

The first priority for every Av is to detect virusses. And Avast has proven many times (just like many others in VB tests) it detects ALL in the wild virusses....

But nowadays most of them also detect some other malware (scripts, Backdoors, trojans,spyware, etc...) But the master in these detection is still Kaspersky with is extended database. All other scanners are way behind it (Macafee is strong also), when it comes to trojan detection.

So, to have a strong(er) defence againts trojans and non-virus malware, you should run a deticated AT also resident. Programs like TDS-3, Trojan Hunter 3, The Cleaner, BoClean etc...

Having a combination of a AT & AV will give you much more safety.

The drawback is there are NO freeware AT's around that do there job. Maybe "Swat-It", but it's not that realy good But i guess it's better than nothing...

http://swatit.org/

Kind regards,

Waldo

[.: Mac :.]

sorry its just that Command detected trojans. But I switched to AVAST because of command's crappy support

[.: Mac :.]

I have the cleaner already installed and have for over a year