avast! & Trojan Detection Capabilities

[internetworld7]

I can't find much documentation on this but does avast! have a good or acceptable detection rate of trojan horses? Also I'm running Windows Defender for it's real-time protection. Can anybody shed any light on the trojan detection rate of Windows Defender if you know anything about it?

I have a-squared for manual scanning of trojan horses. I've been told it has a good detection rate of trojan horses. There was a time when the detection of trojans was an after thought. Not anymore. Today malware writers are writing more trojan code at an accelerated rate than any other form of malware. I don't know why as of late trojans have become very popular among online criminals but hopefully in the future avast! users will have no need of another security product to effectively detect this type of malware. 

[galloway_777]

The only thing I can say about Windows Defender, is that when I was having issues with Avast, and it let some of the EICAR tests through, windows defender automatically detected them. I thought that was pretty neat.

[internetworld7]

That's good to hear. I'm using it primarily for it's real-time protection. Both products appear to compliment each other and Windows Defender picks up some of the slack that avast! has in it's lack of good spyware detection.

For solid trojan detection, I rely on a-squared free manual scanning features.

[joe_kerr30]

  avasr4 says i have a trojan but says it can't move to chest or remove it because it is an unsupported file and there are several files it says it can't open to check!!!
What can be done to resolve this?

[galloway_777]

avasr4 says i have a trojan but says it can't move to chest or remove it because it is an unsupported file and there are several files it says it can't open to check!!!
What can be done to resolve this?

I don't know nearly as much as anyone else here, but maybe you should try the boot scan.

[galloway_777]

Does SpyBot, Ad-Aware and the such detect trojans? I know they're not real time (Ad-Aware Pro is), but I always assumed they do, and I want to make sure.

I've heard good things about Trojan Hunter. It's not free though. But they have a 15 day trial. Surely somebody else will chime in on this topic.

[Spiritsongs]

   Hi all, especially Galloway :

     At one time in the recent past. most of the "Evangelists" here recommended Ewido, now
     known as "AVG Antispyware", for trojan detection & quarantining for those with Win XP &
     Win 2000 AND a-squared for those with earlier Operating Systems. I still maintain that
    "philosophy", but have added the FREE version of SUPERantispyware for those with Win XP &
     Win 2000. Nowadays we mostly have our personal "choices", which vary widely.

[internetworld7]

a-squared has a new improved 2.1 version that is free and I'm sure if you run a manual scan with it, it will detect the same trojan that avast! did and it will probably be able to quarantine it. a-squared specializes in the detection of trojan horses.

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/  Download the free version which you will see on the front page and run a full system scan. 

[Tarq57]

Here's a site I've visited & downloaded the tool to test for antispyware effectiveness, which if I recall mimics a trojan test. Try it out on your resident scanner/s. http://www.spycar.org/Welcome%20to%20Spycar.html

[internetworld7]

Here's a site I've visited & downloaded the tool to test for antispyware effectiveness, which if I recall mimics a trojan test. Try it out on your resident scanner/s. http://www.spycar.org/Welcome%20to%20Spycar.html

This test was a piece of cake for Windows Defender. 

[Tarq57]

Defender blocked them all? Latest WD version?

[FreewheelinFrank]

@joe_kerr30

Please post your problem in a new post in the virus and worms section where it will get some attention.

[DavidR]

avasr4 says i have a trojan but says it can't move to chest or remove it because it is an unsupported file and there are several files it says it can't open to check!!!
What can be done to resolve this?

The same a Frank, your best best is start you own New Topic as this is unrelated to the original post and will only confuse this topic.

[Maeng]

As far as I've seen from the latest test, Avast! is pretty good at trojan detections.

1 WebWasher 99,97%
2 Antivir 99,952%
3 AVK 2007 99,951%
4 AVK 2006 99,89%
5 Symantec 99,04%
6 Kaspersky 98,86%
7 F-Secure 98,24%
8 Bitdefender 96,51%
9 Norman 96,34%
10 Nod32 95,80%
11 Avast! 95,17%
12 AVG 94,78%
13 Fortinet 94,65%
14 McAfee 93,99%
15 Rising 91,18%
16 Panda 90,45%
17 Dr Web 90,38%
18 Trend Micro 90,03%
19 Ikarus 84,77%
20 VBA32 81,28%
21 F-Prot 77,88%
22 Command 77,11%
23 Microsoft 76,18%
24 Ewido 74,67%
25 Sophos 65,55%
26 eSafe 59,34%
27 UNA 58,76%
28 QuickHeal 55,72%
29 Proventia-VPS 51,76%
30 ClamAV 48,71%
31 eTrust-VET 48,37%
32 eTrust-INO 41,92%
33 VirusBuster 40,94%


http://www.pcwelt.de/news/sicherheit/59058/index.html

[internetworld7]

@Maeng

Thank you for posting these stats. It seems avast! is right up there with the big boys in it's trojan detection rate!  I find it funny though that ewido only found 74% when it's suppose to specialize in trojan detection.