Detecting Malware

Viruses and worms
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Hey everybody, r u well??? ;D ;D ;D

lately my college became invested with many kinds of malware, so I need all of your help to give me dome information on this

Actually, I’m sort of a IT consultant among my friends in the campus, when they got invested by a virus they contacted me. Then i said to them to capture the invested file…

  1. is the invested file contain the complete information about the virus/ or even the virus itself?
  2. how can i be so sure that that file is the invested one when avast cant detected it?
    3.can anybody give me a sort tutorial on virus and other malware, btw i’m studying at a medical faculty right now. so i’m not soo smart on this thing… the only book i have read on this is about macro virus…

Thanks for everything before…

Gos Bless Us All :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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In answer to 1, a virus may originate as a single file, but if activated it can spawn many new files, download new files from the internet and make system changes. So an infected file may be only a component of a virus or worm.

In answer to question 2, you can submit the file to an online multi-engine scanner, (I.e., one which submits the file to be scanned by many different AV companies.) If you find a file which is identified as infected by other scanner but not by avast!, please do submit the file to avast!, as I know the team will want to add it to the definitions as soon as possible, and anyway, they all love the extra work. :wink:

http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

In answer to three, try this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/serversecurity/avdind_0.mspx

The section ‘Malware threats’ is just about the definitive tutorial on viruses and other malware.

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Ha dzikrul_maut,

Yes, you have to show all new campus friends this presentation, change the AV product name into AVAST and you know the absolute basics. Show them this:
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/sdu/materials/av/index2.html#

greets,

polonus

4

AssWW

Thanks for the link, Mr Polonus ;D
it really enlighten me about malware and viruses :smiley:

I didn’t know that you had been to Indonesia, he3x, the language is Malaysian’s malay, it’s suppose to be ‘tuan besar’ in jakarta we also call it ‘jagoan’, and the food it’s the one that came from west sumatra => nasi goreng rendang + emping + sambal…

Well anyway, thanks for eyerything, i hope you still got lots to tell me about this malware world

God bless us All :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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