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Offline Pako7

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MC Shield
« on: July 19, 2018, 03:54:55 PM »
hey guys i noticed that Mc Shield has not been updated for the past few years so i wanted to know if i am protected from the new malware which has been released after their update which was on 2014 ....or i am unprotected when i encounter this new malware's??

am using Avast and Mc Shield
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Re: MC Shield
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2018, 04:36:57 PM »
The few signatures it containe are for avoiding false positives

Detection is done by behaviour, there are only so many tricks malware can use to jump disk and all are known


Old topics with info:
2 pages  >>  https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=196168.0

16 pages  >>  https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=104046.0



« Last Edit: July 19, 2018, 04:42:20 PM by Pondus »

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Re: MC Shield
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2018, 05:50:09 PM »
Pondus...you are a developer of Mc Shield??

ok thanks for the information il take a look at those links
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Re: MC Shield
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2018, 09:55:05 PM »
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Pondus...you are a developer of Mc Shield??
No that is dr_Bora. I just translated it to Norwegian






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Re: MC Shield
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2018, 10:56:29 AM »
OK Thank you
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