So I received an email response from VirusTotal regarding the "bug report" about Avast's detection engines on
VirusTotal's website not flagging the malicious CC Cleaner.
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Sep 19, 2:13 AM PDT
Subject: Bug report
Email: **********@yahoo.com
Text:
I uploaded a "tainted" version of "CC Cleaner" to VirusTotal twice today,
and while most of the AV engines on
VirusTotal are flagging it as a Trojan I see that none of the Avast (that
owns CC Cleaner)AV products are flagging it.
Does VirusTotal's AV engines all have automatic updates for detection rules
in place?
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/1a4a5123d7b2c534cb3e3168f7032cf9ebf38b9a2a97226d0fdb7933cf6030ff/detection-------------------------------------
Karl Hiram
Karl Hiramoto (VirusTotal)
Sep 19, 2:29 AM PDT
Yes, we check for updates every hour. If you think avast is not behaving correctly please contact avast. If avast
thinks there is a problem, they can contact us.
We are just aggregating the information produced.
Karl Hiramoto - VirusTotal -
www.virustotal.com---------------------
The Avast AV on VirusTotal is NOW flagging the tainted CC Cleaner but as of 01:17 AM 09/19/2017 when I captured this screenshot it still was not.