At the end of the year we look back and also look forward to what awaits us for the coming year,
I hope that the new long-awaited avast firewall will be one of the 2009 surprises.
I like to wish avast that it will be at least as successful as it was this year, and I wish that the webforum will help a lot of users of the avast software to stay right on track.
Anyone can certainly predict that the coming year will see an increase of various ingenuous malware,
and I hope that the security aware that come here often will be able to stay clear of it all.
The av industry makes predictions, so Polonus held the crystal ball their experts glazed for a while and attached below the text of the first “Polonus malware “horrorscope” of the year 2009”. I spelled it "horror"scope because you get the creeps when you read these predictions. All best wishes for the malware fighters here,
No doubt the malware is going to get tougher. Look back on last year. In january we were hit with the vundo file infecter, which at first basically resulted in a reformat. On it’s heels came the BHO-Trat, that I watched in a span of 24 hrs go from SAS being able to handle it, to having to unload drivers in safe mode, CF and Avenger scripts. Recently I observed one case where the TDSS** variant blocked even installing MBAM. Previously MBAM could remove most of it. I think this year may have been a “trial run”.
Thank you for your observations and last year’s cleansing oversight. It really was one of those malware years.
New cleansing tools had to be brought in for silent hidden driver downloads. The ever changing vundo always being a story apart. I got similar info from our good friend “essexboy”.
On the other hand there were some beautiful cleansing routines performed “in close harmony” and system process scanning came in to establish between legit tasks and suspiscious ones.
I handed in quite a number of manual cleansing oversights to check on, and gained a lot of experience thanks to the help of many.
I think we helped a lot of avast users here (and others as well) and for those that lend us an ear we did a lot of practical security education. The malcreants had their ball all of this year, but the malware fighters can also look back at a year well spent. On behalf of all those you helped here a big thank you goes out to you,
Hi Polonus,