AVG vs Trend Housecall - One finds a virus the other doesn't - help

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Al Dykes

FWIW; I have AVG Free Edition (latest version and updates), which is
new. It finds two instances of something called java/byteverify.

I hit Trendmicro housecall, to see what it would say and I'm suprised
to see it didn't find anything.

Google tells me this is an IE exploit and there is a Microsoft patch
for this. It be new. I'm about to try to remove this little beasty.

Comments ?

This is the first virus I've found on any of my systems in
_years_. The only thing I use MSIE for is to hit
update.microsoft.com. I keep my systems patched and I don't browse
lots of crappy sites that tend to have viruses, and I don't run email
on this machine.
 
Al said:
FWIW; I have AVG Free Edition (latest version and updates), which is
new. It finds two instances of something called java/byteverify.

I hit Trendmicro housecall, to see what it would say and I'm suprised
to see it didn't find anything.

Google tells me this is an IE exploit and there is a Microsoft patch
for this. It be new. I'm about to try to remove this little beasty.

Comments ?

This is the first virus I've found on any of my systems in
_years_. The only thing I use MSIE for is to hit
update.microsoft.com. I keep my systems patched and I don't browse
lots of crappy sites that tend to have viruses, and I don't run email
on this machine.
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Clean out your java cache.
There is a update for java from sun.
What scanners do you use?
-max


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AVG's my scanner on the machine in question. I like Housecall as a backup.
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You can download Sysclean from Trend so you can use it anytime.
There are some other scanners you need to be using.I have some
listed on my site(with links)but here is a short list.

Download Sysclean from here:
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/sysclean.com
Read this(it tells you how to use it!):
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/readme.txt

Download AdAware from here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html
Read the help files,download the winsock fix, and then Update and run
AdAware.
If you lose your Internet connection after running AdAware run the fix.
Winsock Fix here:
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257

Download Spybot Search+Destroy here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Read this:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
Update and run Spybot (enable all protection).

Download Spyware Blaster here: (enable all protection)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Download Bazooka here:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/

Download SwatIt here:
http://swatit.org/

Download KL-Detector here
http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm

There are other online scanners

BitDefender:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

Norton:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/...d=sym&plfid=23&pkj=XHPGJRSOMVZGYYTZXPE&bhcp=1

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

eTrust:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx



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Max M.Wachtel III said:
You can download Sysclean from Trend so you can use it anytime.
There are some other scanners you need to be using.I have some
listed on my site(with links)but here is a short list.

Download Sysclean from here:
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/sysclean.com
Read this(it tells you how to use it!):
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/readme.txt

Download AdAware from here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html
Read the help files,download the winsock fix, and then Update and run
AdAware.
If you lose your Internet connection after running AdAware run the fix.
Winsock Fix here:
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257

Download Spybot Search+Destroy here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Read this:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
Update and run Spybot (enable all protection).

Download Spyware Blaster here: (enable all protection)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Download Bazooka here:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/

Download SwatIt here:
http://swatit.org/

Download KL-Detector here
http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm

There are other online scanners

BitDefender:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

Norton:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/...d=sym&plfid=23&pkj=XHPGJRSOMVZGYYTZXPE&bhcp=1

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

eTrust:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx



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I ran AVG for a while. It would find a particular file contained a virus.
The file didn't, that file was so old it pre-dated virus infections, part of
logitech programmers development kit for dos.
I now use avast, more satisfactory all around, although I didn't swithc
because of that problem..
Dave Cohen
 
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