My online gaming account (WoW) was hacked and everything I have worked for for years to build my characters was lost in minutes. What this has to do with AVAST- 2 trojans were found and removed by microsoft’s malicious software removal tool.
- Worm:Win32/Taterf!inf
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Entry.aspx?name=Worm%3AWin32%2FTaterf!inf
2.PWS:Win32/Frethog.AJ
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Entry.aspx?name=PWS%3AWin32%2FFrethog.AJ
If you scroll to the bottom of link in #1 this is what this worm does :
Modifies System Security Settings
The worm attempts to circumvent security products by:
Attempting to prevent AVP Antivirus from displaying notifications regarding system changes by closing windows used by this product.
How is it an AVP such as AVAST allows a worm to circumvent it’s own security system ? If microsoft can detect/remove this-why does AVAST not detect and stop this ?
Hopefully AVAST techs can please look into this issue and prevent this from happening to others before it’s too late. I myself will be looking for another Anti Virus service as there are some I’ve researched that would have prevented my loss from occurring.