Great Detection!!!

[radicalb21]

Hey everybody it's radicalb21. I just wanted to say how great the virus detection is for avast. I installed avast on a friends computer. It found 582 known viruses and 1 detected via heuristics for a total of 583. I also scanned the same machine with other antivirus products and let me say the results were not as good. Way to go AVAST!!! What a great product.

[RejZoR]

1 via heuristics? Are you sure?

[Delta]

583
How can anybody allow their computers to get into that state

[radicalb21]

Hey Rejzor,
It's radicalb21. The 1 virus was identified as win32 gen (VC).  I thought it was via heuristics. I could be wrong;. This could be a generic detection method for a virus that has yet to specifaclly identiified. I don't know but maybe you could correct me.

[Stephan123]

this is a test from neowin.Isn't it .The file is named as 455viren.rar and there ar 600virusses in

[radicalb21]

No this is not a test from neowin.net . This was a friends pc who said something just isn't right can you take a look. I am still in the process of deleteing viruses as we speak. Some of the virus are so nasty that I'm having to use Bart PE which is a preinstalled windows operating system with various plugins to try and remove these nasty bugs.

[S.Z.Craftec]

No, Radical... you shouldn't clean that computer from viruses...  

That's so strange, that would be great to keep that computer contaminated as it is...   Just try to imagine, you sleep in that room, and whenever you look at your PC, you know that inside lives million of ugly viruses... just like Pandora's Box  

Joke...

Cheers !

[Staind]

I would've just formatted. It is odd though, I'm wondering if he downloaded the file from Neowin and ran it by accident. This would suggest a lot.

[radicalb21]

No I didn't download the file from neowin.net . First this isn't  my machine it is a friends computer from work.  

[niko]

Delta last post is very pertinent

[niko]

Hi Kobra, what are you looking for, really ?

[Staind]

No I didn't download the file from neowin.net . First this isn't  my machine it is a friends computer from work.  

I didn't say you, I was talking about your friend. It sounds like he did or something sent them to him via email and he opened it.  I don't think any Anti virus actually picked up all of the viruses though so you may have a problem...

Hi Kobra, what are you looking for, really ?

He was tell him that Avast! wouldn't pick up all the viruses from the file (which is true) and that he will probably have to use a variety of sources to complete the task.

[The Maxx]

See thats what I find a bit odd.  I keep hearing different numbers for how many viruses was in that one file.  Some are saying a little over 600 and some less.  But the person that first posted that file states "Contrary to the filename which tells you 455 viruses, no it is not. Actual total is 593. If your antivirus detected them all, well done."

Also bilemke on here posted that avast! only missed 8 of those viruses.  Plus they reported they sent those 8 it missed into ALWIL so they can get added to avast!  

[RedSector]

I tested it and avast! found about %99, which is really good imho.  I hate when people get all scared when it misses some.  Nothing is perfect.  None of this deters me from using avast!

[Staind]

See thats what I find a bit odd.  I keep hearing different numbers for how many viruses was in that one file.  Some are saying a little over 600 and some less.  But the person that first posted that file states "Contrary to the filename which tells you 455 viruses, no it is not. Actual total is 593. If your antivirus detected them all, well done."

Also bilemke on here posted that avast! only missed 8 of those viruses.  Plus they reported they sent those 8 it missed into ALWIL so they can get added to avast!  

Yea, Kaspersky said there was 603 viruses though, I'm wondering if it picked up some false positives.  Avast! did just as well as Norton, BitDefender and NOD32.