How Good Is Your Anti-virus/anti-trojan?

[DVD PIRATE III]

Ive got some good tests for Windows and Office exploits if everyones keen after this test is finished...
Any takers?

[CPU1]

ill take it

[DVD PIRATE III]

I thought you would...lol

[SP1]

AVG 7.0 detects 562, which is rather dissapointing... im interested on the one that passed as i mite consider changing my av.

so... which one did pass?

[muchspl2]

[SP1]

hehe i ran the same test as muchspl2 ^^

[DVD PIRATE III]

Originally posted by SP1@11 January 2004 - 13:52
AVG 7.0 detects 562, which is rather dissapointing... im interested on the one that passed as i mite consider changing my av.

so... which one did pass?

Im just waiting for sharedholder and balamm to give us there results...lol
Then ill tell ya the virus scanner that i found that managed to uncover all 593 viruses

[infamousalbo101]

Ill give you my resuslts with sharepros scanner

[infamousalbo101]

[balamm]

Norton Corp, newest with all updates, immediately quarantined 292 files out of a total 594 files. The rest, 302, are not a threat.

If your AV starts deleting or quarantining all your executables because they have some potential, then it's going a bit too far. If it misses a known virus when I execute it, then I'll worry. That hasn't happened yet and it's not likely to.

Paranoia doesn't make up for common sense and education. Most of these files are simple batch commands that could never do anything unless you allowed them to. Any program you download has that same potential. As long as your AV pops up a warning asking what the fuck you're doing when you try to run or install one of these, then there's no risk.
Hell, I could type some malicious code out in notepad and rename it, Should My AV then delete it? It beter not. Same thing here. No worries.