RTZ Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 From Matthew Rizos at http://remove-malware.com/ Avast Prevention Test Videos Posted by malwarekilla December 10, 2008 Last night I tested Avast Antivirus 4.8 Home against a few malicious URL's and Exe's and the results were less than perfect. Avast let a trojan install on the PC and then couldn't remove it once it was on. Later the PC was turned into a BOT and started sending SPAM (video 2). Here are some facts on the test since I know I'll get questions: The PC was clean Latest Avast was loaded The Avast VPS was updated minutes before the video All shields were all turned on high 5-7 URLS were tested 1 trojan infection was confirmed 1 exe failed to elicit any response from Avast (silent malware/rootkit) PC was turned into a spamming BOT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iquamx6LY0w...on-test-videos/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Oh dear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 So there's at least one Trojan that Avast doesn't get, that's no surprise - no AV gets 100% of Trojans. That's why you should scan with more than one anti-malware app - and use caution when you're surfing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTZ Posted December 11, 2008 Author Share Posted December 11, 2008 Very wise advice by the greenknight, I use 3 additional Antimalware programs as second opinion scanners in addition to my Antivirus and believe me from personal expierence good surfing habits is a must or your system could be toast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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