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jwyatt

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Antivirus 360.
« on: March 11, 2009, 06:09:46 AM »
After install of avast on 6 workstations I had one get infected with Antivirus 360.  This is one week after the install of Avast.  My customer is very disturbed that I would put something like this on the network.  I am trying to assure them of the quality of avast,  but its hard.

Any reason why antivirus 360 would be able to install with avast on the PC?

jwyatt

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Re: Antivirus 360.
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2009, 06:10:29 AM »
Oh i forgot another person at the same office called me this morning and said they seen a popup for AV360, but closed this out.  Could this be a firewall issue?



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908504752

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Re: Antivirus 360.
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 08:56:05 AM »
I  don't know.  I  am  a  Chinese,
« Last Edit: March 11, 2009, 09:05:48 AM by 908504752 »

YoKenny

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Re: Antivirus 360.
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2009, 09:52:45 AM »
This one ?: http://okieit.com/Oklahoma-City/34

Using www.virusremovalguru.com for image storage is not a good idea especially when they misspell rogue as rouge.

See:
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/11/diverse-portfolio-of-fake-security_12.html

Malwarebytes MBAM is good to remove this infection but it should be updated to the latest definitions file 1835 then run a Quick scan then have it remove what it finds and a reboot may be necessary to remove locked files.

If it is one of the stubborn mutants then a HijackThis log should be provided to see the file infector:
http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html
« Last Edit: March 11, 2009, 09:55:08 AM by YoKenny »

jwyatt

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Re: Antivirus 360.
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2009, 12:58:45 PM »
Its not the removal that has me stumped.  Its why it got on there.  I removed it from the infected PC, but when i got a call from another user on the same system it makes me wonder whats going on.  Is Avast not doing its job?
I turned these people on to avast Pro because i have had success with it in the past, but im not sure there going to be comfortable with it having proplems out of the box like this.  They were using Norton 2008, but one of the desktops is acting as a server, and norton was causing it to hang and have to be rebooted 2-3 times a day.  So avast was a no brainer in my mind.  These people cant afford to have any systems down for a day while waiting for me to show up.[/soapbox off]
I am just looking for answers as to why Avast did not catch the malware or whatever the name of it is.

looking at the history file it looks like it started from a popup on MySpace.com




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Re: Antivirus 360.
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2009, 02:21:23 PM »
why Avast did not catch the malware or whatever the name of it is.
Because not a software is perfect and the signature of that malware were not added in that particular time.
Right now, on other hand, a lot of Norton and McAfee users get infected with a very dangerous virus called Virut and avast had detected it.
Hope they add this detection soon, if they did not already done it.
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gery

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Re: Antivirus 360.
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2009, 11:06:16 PM »
try dr web cureit it is very effective in finding and removing viruses and malware

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