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!Donovan
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Does Avast! use Virus Heaven?
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September 26, 2010, 11:48:46 PM »
DON'T change the hxxp to http until you know that your computer won't automatically open zip files and you have a knowledge of viruses. I do not want to be yelled at for getting a virus on someone's pc.
hxxp://vx.netlux.org/vl.php
It's a site where you can download viruses in zip format. But, does Avast! use it as a extra resource?
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September 26, 2010, 11:55:45 PM »
They have been notified about it before. Also the collection there have not been updated since 2006
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Re: Does Avast! use Virus Heaven?
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September 27, 2010, 12:01:17 AM »
Wow, and Microsoft Security Essentials didn't detect the one out of three that I downloaded. (IFrames)
Edit: Still, in about every scan I did with the zips, it mostly had 6 antiviruses that didn't detect the file.
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September 27, 2010, 12:08:03 AM »
If the virus is old and does not exist in the wild, why detect it ? don`t know if that is the case with the one you scanned....
The website is not a secret so i guess everyone working with malware knows about it...
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