- xyZed -
Very unscientific I'm afraid. But I was using AVG (Free), which used
to scan my entire hard drive in 25 mins and find no virus' or worms.
After reading this forum I downloaded KAV 5 trial and it's still
scanning after over an hour and only 49% done.
So far it's detected 4 worms and one virus.
- Nehmo -
When you look at the report (on the Tasks tab, select the Scanner, the upper
paper icon on the right) you may see that some of these viruses are zip
attachments of downloaded messages of newsgroups. KAV flags the message
about Bush being assassinated, for example.
On mine, it looks like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\Nehmo\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{2DA4618F-8EA9-48C9-AEC6-49518BFDCBE9}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt.dbx/[From (e-mail address removed)][Date Sun, 26
Sep 2004 11:01:46 GMT]/CCTV-Assasination.zip/CCTV-Assasination.scr Infected
Backdoor.Hackarmy.gen
Although AVG wouldn't have caught it, I wouldn't have opened it anyway.
I'm not sure how the two AV's differ in methods of search. But I must say,
AVG Free worked well for me for years.
But regarding how KAV works, I'm actually trying to figure out what KAV
means by "corrupted".