Will Avast now detect the FLAME Virus descovered in the news lately?

Viruses and worms
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Hi,
Will Avast now detect the FLAME Virus descovered in the news lately? that is going round in the middle east by another antivirus vendor?

2

saw that here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18238326

now i really kind of puzzling as the virus database update history is outdated since a few days and i cant garuntee avast has this in database…

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/flame-worm-failure-mikko-hyponne-80151

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http://www.avast.com/ru-ru/virus-update-history

29.5.2012 - 120529-1
Win32:Skywiper-E [Trj], Win32:Skywiper-F [Trj]

29.5.2012 - 120529-0
Win32:Skywiper-A [Trj], Win32:Skywiper-B [Trj], Win32:Skywiper-C [Trj], Win32:Skywiper-D [Trj]

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http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=98966.msg789487#new

5

Looks like everyone is on to this latest variant except MBAM?

Antivirus Result Update

AhnLab-V3 Worm/Win32.Flame 20120529
AntiVir TR/Flamer.A.4 20120529
Antiy-AVL - 20120530
Avast - 20120528
AVG Worm/Pakes.ATC 20120529
BitDefender Trojan.Flame.A 20120529
ByteHero - 20120522
CAT-QuickHeal - 20120529
ClamAV Worm.Flame 20120530
Commtouch - 20120529
Comodo Worm.Win32.Flame.a 20120530
DrWeb Win32.HLLW.Flame.1 20120530
Emsisoft Worm.Win32.Flame!IK 20120530
F-Prot - 20120529
F-Secure Trojan.Flame.A 20120529
Fortinet - 20120529
GData Trojan.Flame.A 20120529
Ikarus Worm.Win32.Flame 20120529
Jiangmin - 20120529
K7AntiVirus EmailWorm 20120529
Kaspersky Worm.Win32.Flame.a 20120529
McAfee SkyWiper 20120530
McAfee-GW-Edition SkyWiper 20120529
Microsoft Worm:Win32/Flame.gen!B 20120529
NOD32 Win32/Flamer.A 20120529
Norman W32/Flamer.A 20120529
nProtect Worm/W32.Flame.643072 20120529
Panda - 20120529
PCTools Malware.Flamer 20120530
Rising - 20120528
Sophos W32/Flame-A 20120529
SUPERAntiSpyware - 20120526
Symantec W32.Flamer 20120530
TheHacker - 20120529
TotalDefense - 20120530
TrendMicro WORM_FLAMER.A 20120530
TrendMicro-HouseCall WORM_FLAMER.A 20120529
VBA32 - 20120529
VIPRE Worm.Win32.Flame.a 20120529
ViRobot Worm.Win32.Flame.643072 20120529
VirusBuster Trojan.Flame.A 20120529

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I will upload it to MBAM…i have samples for this malware. :wink:

avast detected flame malware…see screenshot…it missed 2 vairents of it…i am gonna submit them now

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These samples are being already detected by avast: https://www.virustotal.com/file/69beb78c8b8de1a86677e27c531c92cb5ca70807d2755b94f70a75887fbc90cf/analysis/
and
https://www.virustotal.com/file/7d5ad688d1cdb34f8ee694e60b9d47e894c879f23218c5c29a19a514030e706d/analysis/
and
https://www.virustotal.com/file/029bcd72dc2ca4b31778cf4ee086038d8bd6c59ed2ed485e247aed56f909f881/analysis/
and
https://www.virustotal.com/file/69beb78c8b8de1a86677e27c531c92cb5ca70807d2755b94f70a75887fbc90cf/analysis/
and
https://www.virustotal.com/file/c6776d9ebe91b2d33b3ac36c845528fd7a81b35095beffbd2ea080fe6eab67cf/analysis/
and
https://www.virustotal.com/file/7d5ad688d1cdb34f8ee694e60b9d47e894c879f23218c5c29a19a514030e706d/analysis/
and
https://www.virustotal.com/file/2fe9c6ba336723e571776192d143e0dfa8289b3d3517bc3b86e47907f62f2543/analysis/
and
https://www.virustotal.com/file/93142e57b3d1b76b466802efe40e6d05ada10c6e870ae67a3a40aa54faf9a1b3/analysis/

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