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Offline MWassef

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Avast Vs. AVS
« on: May 14, 2007, 08:08:59 PM »
After 2 days of using AVS, I REMOVED IT   ;D
I reverted back to avast after AVS FAILED to detect 2 trojans in a zip file when extracting this file (you must extract>> r-click >>scan).Cosing me a lot of trouble   >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
WHILE avast with SS set to "normal" detected & handled the file  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Log:
5/14/2007   8:48:52 PM   1179164932   SYSTEM   1632   Sign of "Win32:Delf-AKF [Trj]" has been found in "C:\Documents and Settings\Mina Guindy\Desktop\??? ???????.com" file. 
5/14/2007   8:49:08 PM   1179164948   SYSTEM   1632   Sign of "Win32:Small-AKS [Trj]" has been found in "C:\Documents and Settings\Mina Guindy\Desktop\????? ???.scr" file. 
14/05/2007   08:49:44 ã   1179164984   Mina Guindy   3364   Sign of "Win32:Small-BHA [Trj]" has been found in "C:\DOCUME~1\MINAGU~1\Desktop\ACE8~1.SCR\[FSG]" file. 
14/05/2007   08:49:48 ã   1179164988   Mina Guindy   3364   Sign of "Win32:Prorat-AX [Trj]" has been found in "C:\DOCUME~1\MINAGU~1\Desktop\ACE8~1.SCR\[Embedded#00115e]" file. 
5/14/2007   8:50:03 PM   1179165003   SYSTEM   1632   Sign of "Win32:Delf-AKF [Trj]" has been found in "C:\Recycled\Dc34.com" file. 
5/14/2007   8:50:20 PM   1179165020   SYSTEM   1632   Sign of "Win32:Delf-AKF [Trj]" has been found in "C:\Documents and Settings\Mina Guindy\Desktop\??? ???????.com" file. 
5/14/2007   8:50:47 PM   1179165047   SYSTEM   1632   Sign of "Win32:Small-AKS [Trj]" has been found in "C:\Documents and Settings\Mina Guindy\Desktop\????? ???.scr" file. 
14/05/2007   08:51:50 ã   1179165110   Mina Guindy   3548   Sign of "Win32:Small-BHA [Trj]" has been found in "C:\DOCUME~1\MINAGU~1\Desktop\ACE8~1.SCR\[FSG]" file. 
14/05/2007   08:51:54 ã   1179165114   Mina Guindy   3548   Sign of "Win32:Prorat-AX [Trj]" has been found in "C:\DOCUME~1\MINAGU~1\Desktop\ACE8~1.SCR\[Embedded#00115e]" file. 
14/05/2007   08:52:05 ã   1179165125   Mina Guindy   3812   Sign of "Win32:Delf-AKF [Trj]" has been found in "C:\DOCUME~1\MINAGU~1\Desktop\5B59~1.COM" file. 

TO HELL WITH AVS,GO AVAST GO

Edit: Sorry for the language  :-[ :-\
« Last Edit: May 14, 2007, 08:12:01 PM by Minacross »
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Re: Avast Vs. AVS
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2007, 11:09:02 PM »
After 2 days of using AVS
Hmmm... What will you test now? Norton? ;D
You're going deeper and deeper ;D
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Re: Avast Vs. AVS
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2007, 11:22:53 PM »
Hi Minacross.

You have been hanging out here long enough to know a bit about AV and AV products. You have heard about the vulnerability window, you know that the makers of malware, also known as "malcreants" test their new virus or worm to go under the radar of the biggest three AV-products. So our advise to everyone, do not use these products to be protected against new malware. There are typical products with a lot of FPs/ Do not use either. You also have read that in general testing terms AVAST is the second best product around, and when you combine AVAST with some non-resident scanners and some online-scanning, and apply DrWeb's hyperlink browser plug-in to pre-test a link for malware, before actually clicking it, you have covered the whole niece where viruses and worms are concerned. Just add some good anti-spyware programs, disable your admin rights, deny script from running whenever you have no need for it, and do for cookies the same, and you are quite secure. I repeat it again and again. Security is more of an attitude, so learn secure practices.

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« Last Edit: May 14, 2007, 11:25:23 PM by polonus »
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Re: Avast Vs. AVS
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2007, 12:54:16 AM »
biggest three AV-products
Which are they? Big in which topic?
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Re: Avast Vs. AVS
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2007, 03:28:06 PM »
to Tech:
Maybe on resource consumption: AVS is really "hungry" on it ;D ;D
BTW: It mess up my internet connection when I tried to work with it some time loong ago ;D.
So my conclusion is marked under my avatar picture:
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« Last Edit: May 15, 2007, 03:29:54 PM by avatar2005 »