Avast 4.8 Detect a virus In Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool

[HUMOUD AL NEFAIE]

C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AntiRansom4\protected\Bases\Cache\kavbase.2aaee58cce08ec9a.kmc

( Win32:Insom )




Virustotal Analysis https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/71181b9de9dd9fec8cd12a75aefcfa42f274a3da693424b78ea132160ff82ffe/detection

[DavidR]

Avast 4.8 is effectively unsupported, no idea why you would be still using this antique.  I rather doubt there are many in the forum that have used it in the dim and distant past.  There are a few exceptions, mine being one.  If it was sent to the virus chest there is/was an option to send it to Avast for analysis from within the Virus Chest.

It could simply be a conflict between what is another security based product.
Could it also be that this Anti-Ransomware Tool is also very old.

Posting multiple topics on the same thing won't get it answered any quicker, just having duplicates removed.

[schmidthouse]

I also ran 4.8 in the distant past and have to say this version would not be an effective anti-virus solution for obvious reasons developmentally; not to mention the evolution of today's malware (viruses,)

[InvisibleMan]

I'm all for using the stable technologies that proved themselves (up to a reasonable limit),
but dear god! 

C:\ProgramData

A modern Windows with Avast 4.8 .... I think the last time I used that Avast version it was on Windows XP, 15 years ago.

And even on my Windows 7, just a year ago I had stop using a good and stable Avast v10 (2015) and switch to the more recent one, simply because the modern graphics card drivers were in conflict with the outdated Avast.

[igor]

Virus definition updates for v4.x haven't been released for a long time (yours is from 2017... i.e. the product is basically useless, you can uninstall it and it won't change much) - so even if we wanted to do anything about it (which we probably wouldn't), there's no way to do that.