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Usually, and this a behavior I’ve seen happening, not just with avast! but with other antimalware apps, when a detection is provided by generic detection it’s added gen to the malware name, just like this example:
-http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=fedb7b404754cf85737fb7e50f33324b84eb4c0b98024c7d3302039a901b04b7-1284116017
Avast 4.8.1351.0 2010.09.10 Win32:Trojan-gen
Avast5 5.0.594.0 2010.09.10 Win32:Trojan-gen
The name of the one I reported in my first post is Win32:FakeAlert-ABT.
Could you confirm is a generic or heuristic detection? Because if it isn’t generic or heuristic, then it’s a known sample to avast.
At least, you could have mentioned something about why avast! 5 detects the sample and that’s the reason why avast! 4 fails to do it so, when you replied to my first post.
I understand if you don’t want to confirm whether or not it’s not a generic or heuristic detection.