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Offline !Donovan

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[Is it posible that Avast! can] detect different extintions and codes?
« on: April 15, 2009, 12:38:03 AM »
Can Avast! detect viruses that created their own exition with their own coding? Like 48TJG8GHI might be a virus code to shutdown pc and FN88BJVOinjg is their code for shutdown. I'm thinking that Avast! would just popup a "Suspishous" warning that it has different coding.
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Re: [Is it posible that Avast! can] detect different extintions and codes?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2009, 04:50:45 PM »
avast scans the content of a file to see if it is malicious or not. The name of a file doesn't matter. Depending on your settings, avast can scan all files or only with certain extensions.
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