Hi guys, I’ve just bought a 3PCs, 2-year licence of Avast Internet Security 2013 and successfully installed it in one of my computers. I will install the same on the other two later. They are all running Windows 8.
I am just curious. How do you folks research all these malware, virus, trojans etc… threats? I mean someone has to write them. So how do you know where to catch them, or even identify them? Say, if I want to catch fish, I throw a net into the water. So you use a “digital” net of some sort? Or to use a weather analogy, I’d have a barometer and wind vane to tell me wind and atmospheric conditions. So do you use some sort of barometer or sensors to detect changes in the digital atmospheric environment and conclude a threat is imminent?
if I want to catch fish, I throw a net into the water. So you use a "digital" net of some sort?
something like that....it is called honeypots....
every vendor have its tricks that are considered company secrets on how they do it
then you you have all those that trawl the web and send samples to them, found at gambling sites, porn sites, file share sites, torrent sites.....etc etc
they also get samples from online file scanners like jotti.org. virustotal.com. virscan.org. metascan-online.com. if they are a meber there
Interesting reading and video clip! Thanks for these information guy. New stuff for me to learn. I appreciate it.
By the way all my 3, Windows 8 PCs now runs AIS, updated and without any problems. I like the boot scan feature although I realized it’s going to take hours. Better schedule this as an overnight task.
No need to schedule a bootscan. It is a very special scan that Avast! itself will ask if need it. The manual and schedule settings are there if you are asked by aspecialist to run it. A thing to remember to never delete any file a bootscan find suspicious or infected. Better to ask here in the Virus and Worms forum what to do next.
A quick scan once a week is more than enough. Remember that Avast! constantly analyzes any file or program you download, open, run or change in anyway. You can run a full scan every month or so. Well I have done it like this for years without problems.
Also, if you want, you can have malwarebytes’ (MBAM) installed and run a quick scan to substantiate Avast! results. Many of the regulars in this forum recommend it and run it either as a full paid program or the free version.
To each their own. I use the boot time scanner each time a new version of avast! is released.
Thereafter, I allow the on demand scanner to check anything new or changed and don’t bother doing any other “regular” scans.
As I said, to each their own.
