So I’ve always been a fan of the Comodo Firewall and I use it in conjunction with Avast! … when a new release came out, I promptly reinstalled it and not thinking let Comodo install the antivirus component of their firewall.
So basically… Comodo started up and updated a definitions database. I thought to myself… what the hell is this thing doing? Anyway it did a complete system scan and found:
Unclassified Malware@8351713 in an executable “A0036382.exe” in my C:\System Volume Information
so… seeing as I didn’t trust Comodo’s antivirus, I ignored the infection and ran a full system scan of Avast! as well as a boot-time scan. Avast! did not find this infection at all.
I am quite disturbed by this. I have always trusted Avast! to keep my system clean and it misses an infected file in my System restore points? That’s not good in my book.
If you have Comodo, I’d highly reccomend using the antivirus component (resident scanning turned off, of course) and run scans with it. It might find things Avast! won’t.