avast terrible in virii detect?!?!?!?

an answer to http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1379

kaspersky

vet

the files are ascii but too big to post
so i compressed in zip but there is only *.txt inside!!

maybe some karma to me…

look a great great test !

I didn’t get it mantra :-[
what exactly is your point ? ???

download the attachement
rename f.zip.txt in f.zip
open the file zip and open the *.txt inside the zip files
and look a big big test with a lot of virii

Nice testing Mantra ! :slight_smile:

btw : man, how did you got so many virusses for testing purposes ?

I’m looking (searching the web) for months now, to find a large virrii database like this…:frowning:

Waldo

May something intresting to do for you. Run Kaspersky with “delete all Viruses” and than run Avast to see what Virus Kaspersky misses. Do it with vet the same way.

i have 3 cd 700 mb of virii in compressed

and avast did great great test

some karma for me

ps waldo i can send what do u need or give some links…

Could you send me an IM or email with these links?
Thanks, mantra :wink:

Excuse me, but you only posted the results of Vet AV and KAV…
where are the results of Avast4 ? ??? ??? ???

sweet, if you could provide me with a couple of link, please. > you got my mail (hotmail) and you can pm also.

Karma is on the way Mantra ! :slight_smile:

to tec & wald yes sure i will send the link
but be carefull!!!ok ?

to mina the avast results are in the first post ( the open post)

bye …
thanks for karma… ;D ;D

Wow! I’m impressed. I’m too scared to load viruses on my machine then run AV to see what it catches. I trust the labs for that.

well, i never excecute them ! :wink:

There mostly zipped, and this way being harmless untill unpacked (wich i never do).

I just put them on a cd to do some scanning/testing with different programs. It’s like a hobby to me.

some people collect post stamps, some collect virrii, lol.

Waldo

Well, the only problem with such “collections” is that they usually contain big number of crap - corrupted files, jokes, even false alarms and other similar stuff. And while nobody really executes them (like you :slight_smile: ) - they are counted as viruses by many people…

Pavel

Thanks for advicing, Pavel ;D

I didn´t receive your link :cry:

Using google will do the job, too! But remember always what Pavel said these “collection” of Internet-viruses are really contain much rubbish and are often really old. They not really good for reliable tests.
F-prot is really good in identify such garbage. Often it reports (by using /collect) such files as corrupted ,garbage or “not a virus”!:slight_smile:

“Well, the only problem with such “collections” is that they usually contain big number of crap - corrupted files, jokes, even false alarms and other similar stuff. And while”

i can post some of these files

maybe somebody can turn off the av and try to run it ;D ;D ;D