Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-014 thread still not detected by Avast!

According to VirusTotal a 5 year old Windows vulnerability is still not detected by Avast! Although the exploit itself was patched by MS, the malware itself that makes use of it should be detected by AV software.

You can read about the vulnerability here

Here you can see the results by VirusTotal.

Now I must admit that this report of VT dates from december 2010, but I reckon that since that’s only a month ago, it’s still not implemented in the virus definitions of Avast! yet.

While many of the other major AV software do detect this, I am kinda surprised Avast! doesn’t yet. Might wanna do something about this, as this vulnerability is still being exploited today!

You can submit the file to avast! so they can add on the Database.
Also can do it via GUI or sending an e-mail to virus(at)avast.com with the file in a zip.
How to submit files to avast! via GUI Guide: http://public.avast.com/supp/submit/submit.htm

You can submit the file to avast! so they can add on the Database.
i did that on friday ;) so it should have been detected now ::)

Rescanned the file and it is now detected :smiley:

VirusTotal - sys.exe - 30/43
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=cd0300675414dc384fb7f787e0608d113a5703df5203eb8b50e59a9b30de2005-1295791714

Oh good :slight_smile: