Dr. Virus, the new anti-virus

Viruses and worms
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:slight_smile: :slight_smile: hi, I found new anti-virus, this is great anti-virus, you want to download ? you can visit the sites at : drvirus.co.nr

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Hi hakikvb,

Are you from Indonesia, as this portable anti-virus solution is. Rather new, because Siteadvisor has no advice for it, but DrWeb gives it a green download alert. Do not know if you can use it next to a resident av program, if it is resident itself, it is nothing to be used alongside Avast. Haven’t seen much comments on it either.

polonus

3

I have to question the motives of someone making their first post on the avast anti-virus support forum about another anti-virus program ???

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I have to question the motives of someone making their first post on the avast anti-virus support forum about another anti-virus program.

Yes, I was wondering the same thing and certainly this would bother me as well.

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According to the website, it seems to be owned by the person who posted about it.
“If you have an idea to perfect or enhance this anti virus or add modules, you can contact me at hakikvb@gmail.com with the subject of ‘Include new module’. Thank you and enjoy!”

6

So posted by a lying, drive by spammer, fills you full of confidence about this new product he just happened to ‘find.’ It really does amaze me the people who think they might benefit by this kind of spamming.

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Hi DavidR,

Spamming could be one motive, allthough I also know about AV scanners from Indonesia, specially build for local malware there (according to them not found elsewhere & spread through Indonesian Internet café’s and Universities) that are nothing but maliciously scanning your browser settings etc. and also try to disable a firewall like ZA, Comodo (the latter survived the attack), later crash on operating before launching results, and are just a simple pain in the neck or worse even. Do not think this one is, but people better be warned than to download something out of the blue. This is just for the record.

polonus

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Which is exactly what my response is about, would you trust someone that spams you and tells lies with your security, absolutely not. You would I hope treat it in the same way as unsolicited email, don’t even click the link (to investigate like AssistantX) or open an attachment.

So the same care should be taken with unsolicited posts, especially a first post and the fact that they haven’t turned up to defend their action or motivation that I questioned in my first response.

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Or if you do investigate a link like me ;D :

  • Search the internet to see what sites links to the website(Mainly forums or blogs: See what they say)
  • Check the given link to make sure it isn’t a download
  • Look at the website in an well trusted non-IE(or trident engine) browser
  • Disable Javascript/Flash/Java in that browser
  • Do not download the applications
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I spend the same amount of time investigating this Spam as I do investigating email Spam, zero.

I never have anything to do with spam much less respond/click links, etc. for email I let my anti-spam take care of it investigation is futile. For this I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of a hit on site traffic, I wouldn’t have anything to do with software promoted/spammed in this way.