A file that was sent to a friend’s PC, was detected as having the Hacktool.LsassSba virus in it. I put this file through a scan of Avast and it never detected it. Now I’m really concerned and thinking of picking up Norton Anti Virus (that’s the software my friend has).
Anyhow, has anyone else heard of this virus and can give a reason why Avast can’t detect it. Wondering how good Avast is now. I scanned the file again a moment ago with Avast, nothing – it says it’s all fine.
I’m running Avast 4.6 home with the latest virus and program updates.
Hacktool.LsassSba is not a virus. It is (as the name indicates) a hacking tool.
As has been explained ‘hundreds’ of times here:
1] each av detects things another doesn’t.
2] having a av is not enough nowadays to protect your system.
3] security starts with the user, not the hardware or software.
4] in order to add a malware to the vps, Alwil must have the full code of it.
I believe if you click on the link in my signature and read the malware removal section as well as the HJT section, things will become more clear to you.
Again, many thanks Eddy, the info you’ve given me is great.
I’m just wondering in your opinion, what the best software would be to detect hacking tools? I already have Adware and Spybot and ran those, but they didn’t detect it.