Hi Tech,
Well this week brought us two updates. The best for updates is the KAV 5.0 machine (Kaspersky 1 hour update), but Dr. Web is a good second (2 hour updates), thats why I installed the AV browser plug-in from Dr. Web to have a bit of extra in scanning the links I like to open (html OK, script OK javascript OK all checked on the Global Update Server of Dr. Web). I have the advantages of this minus the disadvantages of an heuristic AV product on my machine.
greets,
polonus
Working very well and doing it’s job. It could scan ‘suspicious’ downloads.
VPS is updated and malware detected now.
Virus has been detected!
File Name: sysinit32z.exe
FileID: 311
Virus Description: Win32:Trojano-1864 [Trj]
Virus has been detected!
File Name: sysinst54.exe
FileID: 312
Virus Description: Win32:Trojano-1866 [Trj]
Virus has been detected!
File Name: taras.exe
FileID: 313
Virus Description: Win32:Trojano-1865 [Trj]
Virus has been detected!
File Name: sys2431.exe
FileID: 314
Virus Description: Win32:Trojano-1867 [Trj]
Virus has been detected!
File Name: sys240.exe
FileID: 315
Virus Description: Win32:Trojano-1867 [Trj]
Virus has been detected!
File Name: sys5620.exe
FileID: 324
Virus Description: Win32:Trojano-1867 [Trj]
Virus has been detected!
File Name: sys5622.exe
FileID: 325
Virus Description: Win32:Trojano-1867 [Trj]
But it took very long to add them. I understand they have vaccations,but VPS updates are top priority for any antivirus. Especially for those that don’t have any pro-active protection (not that this would be the reason not to update defs,but it’s a smaller chance to get infected anyway). As Vlk mentioned in other Tech’s thread about improving malware submission,priocessing and adding to VPS i hope this will really be improved 
Hmm, I’m not in the virus team, but I am sure they have added many signatures in each VPS update. What I am also sure that Karel and Vlada have many yet unanalyzed samples. Perhaps you would like to place submited signatures to the top of the list? What if something more dangerous appears? Should those be postponed too?
I’m sure that Karel and Vlada are doing their best. Normally updates do contain a lot of new things, but since there are many unanlyzed samples… Shouldn’t there be a 3rd person on the job? Perhaps just to make a preselection from the mails with fp’s and ‘real’ samples?
I made mine the Eddy’s words… Maybe RejZor could have a new job 
No offense, so please pardon me.
Sometimes I really doubt about the way ALWIL does.
As we know, many AV companies have been improving their product capabilities like they get crazy, some has hourly/daily updates and some has so-called heuristic detection and they take these improvements to be a BIG marketing point.
Ask NOD32’s users they will tell us their beloved AV has the better heuristic than other AVs, ask Kaspersky’s users they will tell us their beloved AV has hourly updates and the better overall detection rates than other AVs.
While avast! seems to be ignored about improvement its detection rates, update scheme and proactive detection even these are the most important aspect of antivirus software, nothing more than detecting viruses/malware as soon as possible. So this reason seems to make avast! to be underrated AVs and has no unique marketing point when compared to thers.
What I really doubt is that, what other AVs do is nothing but over marketing hype or it is really needed?
@TAP
No offence, but if you are so dissatisfied with avast’s VPS updates and lack of heuristics (other than in the mail scanner) why are you still here?
avast’s VPS update frequency is better than many AVs, auto update checks for an update every time I connect to the internet (dial-up) or every 4 hours if you remain connected and if there is an update available you get it. That has got to be better than any artificial hourly/two, four hourly/daily (and much worse weekly) update.
No, I’m completely satisfied with avast! and I think even avast! Home is better than some commercial AVs. But I’m just curious, I really doubt that what some other AVs do (e.g. updates/heuristic almost every breath its users take) now is nothing but over marketing hype or it is really needed?
As it was my first desire at this thread, we always want avast! better and better…