Does free Avast prevent *.lnk exploits?

[antdude]

Hi!

I recently read http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-aug.mspx ... I am wondering if the free version of the latest and updated Avast AV is enough to prevent this exploit for an old, updated Windows 2000 SP4 machine?

Thank you in advance.

[Hermite15]

don't wonder anymore, an out of band patch is out tomorrow
http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2010/07/29/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2286198.aspx

edit: okay, I see now that's you're on Win2000, you won't get any patch, so I have no idea if Avast protects against that

[NON]

I'm not quite sure, but it seems "LNK:Runner" is the detect-name of the exploit.

See here:
http://www.avast.com/virus-monitor
http://www.avast.com/virus-update-history-2010

According to this, detections of LNK:Runner are added at July 16 (just after this exploit found), and now it reaches the top of virus-monitor graph.

[DavidR]

Yes it does as acknowledged by one of the avast Team in another topic.

[antdude]

Yes it does as acknowledged by one of the avast Team in another topic.

Got the URL?

[hayc59]

don't wonder anymore, an out of band patch is out tomorrow
http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2010/07/29/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2286198.aspx

edit: okay, I see now that's you're on Win2000, you won't get any patch, so I have no idea if Avast protects against that

thats good to know but why wait for microsoft and put out a fix?
and thanks antdude for bringing this out

[Rednose]

Yes it does as acknowledged by one of the avast Team in another topic.

Got the URL?

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=37542.msg525905#msg525905

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=37542.msg526405#msg526405

Greetz, Red.

[antdude]

Thank you rednose and hayc59!