Why did avast! fail in this round of VB100 Award??

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Why did avast! 4 fail in the latest round of vb100 testing?? They say they were testing version 4.1.399 and the latest version out is 4.1.396. There is as problem some where as these version don’t match. Here is the information I got from the following url:

www.virusbtn.com

Overview

Result summary: 9 passes / 19 fails
Performance graph: - Success / Failure / No Entry
Vendor website: http://www.avast.com/

History

June 2004: Windows XP Professional

Status: FAIL
Product name: Alwil Avast! 4.1.399
More: June 2004 in full

Any and all help would be appreciated on this subject.

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last fail was imho because VBTN couldn’t/wouldn’t manage to switch the avast Shield / on-access-scanner to test “on open” instead of “before execute”(default setting & pretty safe)…
maybe a repetition now…?

see board search, lots of threads on this sad topic

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Ok no i want to know too. Current version looks perfect,detection is also good!? Huh,lets wait for alwil guys…

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avast? :‘(
Won’t anybody comment this? :’(

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We may have to wait untill monday.

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I don’t have the magazine yet… so I don’t really know. But I’ve heard that it’s because avast missed a single sample somewhere (don’t know which/where, though)…

It’s often like this with the VB tests…

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Hope it was the zipped sample,since its normal that antivirus doesn’t scan inside archives (waste of CPU and memory time).

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AFAIK the VB test sets don’t include any archived files… so probably no, it was not a ziped file.

Never mind.

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We know that but we’re bored about such things… We want the best for us ;D

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I don’t need VB100 to tell me what I already know!
Avast is the best even if they can’t get their act together ;D

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I am currently out so I can’t check if it is true, but according to the VB magazine:

“Despite coming close to a VB 100% award, Alwil’s product fell short by one file - the .HTM sample of W32/Lovelorn was missed from the ItW test set.”

Pavel

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Thanks Pavel. But I suppose you will correct this asap and receive a new 100% award soon 8)

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By the way,according to @risk, F-Secure has 2 problems:
Malformed LHA Archive Buffer Overflow and
Content Detection Bypass
Norton has one
Remote Code Execution
I didn’t see anything about avast
-max

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F-Secure has 2 problems: Malformed LHA Archive Buffer Overflow and Content Detection Bypass
Can you give me a link? I Use F-Secure as a Backup Scanner to Avast and would like to know how this will affect me
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here ya go
http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2004-1.shtml
-max

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Oh ok I downloaded the Hotfix for my version. (they fixed it very quickly :))

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So this is very interesant because according virus database update history

VPS 0312-4, 06.01.2004
Win32:Lovelorn-B [Wrm]

i hope it’s not another “incorrect” setting fail :frowning:

also i wonder where they got 4.1.399 :slight_smile:

can’t wait for more info …