Offcourse AVAST4 detects a lot of worms & trojans, but recently (after my own experience and some others in the forum ) it is clear that it does fail to detect some also.
Offcoure a Antivirus solution is originaly ment to deal with virrusses.
But nowadays most Av’s detect trojans also.
I found out (the hard way) that having a layered defence (Anti trojan monitor) running can indeed save your ass, if your main Antivirus doesn’t pick it up.
I personally recommend:
Anti-trojan V5.5 build 421 that detects 10261 Trojans and worms
I have the full version for alomts 2 years now, and it never had to do anything till yesterday > but boy, I was glad I had it running !
It has a “trojan guard/monitor” feature that can run resident also. verry light on resources. That blocks a trojan running.
BTW: it is very easy to handle files from kazaa, by not download Software from it!
They are often infected with Malware( Virus, Trojan, Dialer and so on) , so no AV-programm will be able to find all of them. Even not for Kaspersky with its “extended” Database (for adware, Dialer and other things)
Well, the risk of getting infected is reduced offcourse. But not compleet gone.
A lot of worms & trojans are spreading on e-mail users also.
E-mail providers like outlook are vurnable to alot of exploits.
And most “online mail” >hotmail etc…are already scanned automaticly with antivirus software. But this doesn’t mean ALL the trojans are detected also.
So, the desiccion is yours. And a lot depend on your behavior.
Avast4 (and most recent scanners) detect alot of trojans, but sometimes they do slip trough the maze. And when this happens you will be glad if you have a “second defence”.
The changes are small, this happens (if your a careful user) but never say never !!
It happened to me, and with a few other forum members also.
Apparently it’s no better than any other AV for catching trojans. Here’s a quote from wizard, one of the mods.
Okay I made a quick investigation of AT-Watch with FileMon from Sysinternals. AT-Watch does not scan process memory. It just scans the files saved on disc and not in memory.
Therefore I consider AT to be useless like most antivirus software against backdoor trojans because it has no unpacking engine and no memory scan. So how does it protect against packed/crypted trojans which are more than common these days?
AT is IMHO just an old fashioned anti trojan program where runtime packer were not used at all and the files remain “static”
Yes, i’m a regular visitor of the Wilders forum also, and yes, i have read this topic.
But this post from “wizard” goes about the unpacking capablities of the resident guard.
It’s true that it only scans unpacked files and has no memory scan.
I never stated anywhere it does.
But it does block trojans & worms from running if there unpacked. (installed or executed).
On the other hand, the on-demand scanner does unpack and looks into archives.
Saying it’s no good, is wrong. It saved me ! does this still makes the program useless? Don’t think so.
Offcourse it would be better if the “guard” (on access) could scan unpacked files also, and maybe memory. But I don’t think there are Anti-trojans programs around that can do this. (maybe TDS-3)
A trojan CAN’T run unpacked. So AT (guard) reacts “IN TIME” when you try to install the malware (as it’s already or being unpacked then).
I’m just reporting what I’ve found. I’m not a computer newbie by no means but I don’t understand alot about trojans & viri. That’s why I listen to other people & try to form my own opinion.
After reading your response I’ve decided to try AT. It is indeed very light on resources which is a very good thing as I’m always looking for software that’s light on resurces. That’s one of the main reasons why I switched my firewall from Sygate to Kerio.
The ones who try TrojanCheck 5.0.4.1 (http://www.wilders.org/HTMLobj-925/install_trojancheck5041.exe) remember: there is a update bug in this version. The new (and by the author the last) TrojanCheck 6.0 is not so easy to download (broken links at the homepage). Beware of false positives too… :-\
ROFL. Brain Version 1.01 ;D
Nice one Raman.
For me Kazaa is a no go place. sooner or later you are bound to get infected, if using it.IMO.
Regards
Omik
Or the RIAA will get you. WinMX is the way to go. Your safe from the RIAA for now since they don’t seem to be going after WinMX users, yet. Of course you could get infected using any P2P program if you’re not careful.
btw : Amerk_5 , RIAA is not active in Belgium.As far as our law in concerned, downloading software is still not illegal. You just may not upload software to P2p, or share anything.