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Offline Asyn

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Re: Avast! among a few still not detecting this ransomware
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2017, 01:15:09 PM »
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Re: Avast! among a few still not detecting this ransomware
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2017, 01:27:35 PM »
VirusTotal just tests against the signatures really. You need to actually execute the sample to see if it can go past CyberCapture, DeepScreen, Cloud and the Behaviour Shield.
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Re: Avast! among a few still not detecting this ransomware
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2017, 03:06:29 PM »
VirusTotal just tests against the signatures really. You need to actually execute the sample to see if it can go past CyberCapture, DeepScreen, Cloud and the Behaviour Shield.
Some, if not most, of the a/v engines available on VT are not the full featured versions available, just so you know.
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