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

[SeK612]

As I extracted the files (drag and dropped from win RAR) my AV program (norton 2004) started poping up messages about the viruses (see below). Some of them it fixed others it couldn't. I think it got everything...

[Mik3ll]

You should disable it while you extract them, then enable then scan the folder.

[longboneslinger]

Mik3ll Posted on 10 January 2004 - 21:14
  You should disable it while you extract them, then enable then scan the folder

Disabling your AV might not be to bad an idea. I forgot to disable Avast and it went NUTS when I started downloading the .rar. Not the first time I've seen the virus pop-up, but I aint never seen it scroll ! It scrolled for a while, too! Damn.....

As for those scared of catching a virus, been there, done that....my first was the Stealth_b boot virus. Anybody remember that little gem? Hmm.... I still got a copy on a floppy from college. It's in a copy of VGAPlantets. Can't finsh the game cuz of it......ah well.

[DVD PIRATE III]

Still got a copy of that virus mate?...feel like sending us a copy?

[fkdup74]

WTF??????

NAV 03 only caught 300??????????? (updated yesterday)
heh, i forgot i have auto protect enabled, so had to 'ok' about 300 times
it caught the fuckers as soon as i un-rared
the remaining it left in the folder, so i scanned em and nothing
^$%*(&%^% *(&%*%(*% ing norton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^^^^^^^^the words replaced by these symbols are unspeakable,
even in here

[Monkeee]

wait so this virus stuff is safe right?

[nostalgia]

ok. dowloading now. will test it with AVG7 pro without heuristic and with and also
Kaspersky.
results will follow.

edit: Results.
Well First I'd like to pronounce the injury I just got. It's called RSI for prssing a lot of OK's during the tests.
Here are the results of the jury. Kaspersky 4.5.0.94 let me down beyond words. Maybe I just didn't configure Kaspersky the right way but scanning 594 files and finding only 75! is totally out of order. Kaspersky is now deinstalled.

AVGPro7 (7.0.209) scanned 602 files (?) and found 562. This is a scare but I think I can explain that due to the many trojans in the test.
Although anti-virus manufacures try to make an all-round programm, the fact still is they are anti-virus and not specialized in trojans. So if an anti-virus programm doesn't recognises a trojan it is not the end of the world bur surely it is a sign to get a good trojanhunter.

[sharedholder]

Originally posted by FKDUP74@11 January 2004 - 08:33
WTF??????

NAV 03 only caught 300??????????? (updated yesterday)
heh, i forgot i have auto protect enabled, so had to 'ok' about 300 times
it caught the fuckers as soon as i un-rared
the remaining it left in the folder, so i scanned em and nothing
^$%*(&%^% *(&%*%(*% ing norton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^^^^^^^^the words replaced by these symbols are unspeakable,
even in here

http://klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=93218

[Samurai]

It seems that the majority of us using Norton & McAfee are catching all BUT 6 in our tests, aside from those using other AV software...

nostalgia - I think it's time to find a better AV, your results are appalling.

So... these 6 that the 2 main AV did not detect, someone mentioned these as 'droppers'. Would this mean Norton and McAfee came top of the league?

[nostalgia]

Originally posted by Samurai@11 January 2004 - 16:20
nostalgia - I think it's time to find a better AV, your results are appalling.

Just downloaded the latest version of Pc Cillin