best free antivirus: a comparison apr 7, 2009

  • Thread starter Thread starter Tommy McClure
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Tommy said:
haven't seen it posted here:
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"The findings presented here are not my original work but come from a
single source: AV-comparative.org¢s antivirus comparison tests conduced
in Nov 2008 (test #20) and Feb 2009 (test #21), which are the latest as
of this writing."

Maybe it was posted nearly a year ago when it was current ... Oh wait,
it's not "original work" so why bother? :-/
 
Beauregard said:
"The findings presented here are not my original work but come from a
single source: AV-comparative.org¢s antivirus comparison tests conduced
in Nov 2008 (test #20) and Feb 2009 (test #21), which are the latest as
of this writing."

Maybe it was posted nearly a year ago when it was current ... Oh wait,
it's not "original work" so why bother? :-/
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So instead of visiting av-comparatives.org and review their results to make
your own conclusions, you need to have this "tester" tell you what are *his*
conclusions.
 
Do NOT go to that site. Avira brings up a virus warning !!!!!
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I didn't get any warnings using Avira. Avira seems to use very little in
the way of resources. I do get a warning on a couple of files that I
know to be ok, but I can live with that. I doubt any software can be
100% against a new virus, so do image and file backups.
 
Dave said:
I didn't get any warnings using Avira. Avira seems to use very little
in the way of resources. I do get a warning on a couple of files that
I know to be ok, but I can live with that. I doubt any software can be
100% against a new virus, so do image and file backups.
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I have the 'heuristics' turned on in Avira (Free Version) and it probably
was a false positive.
"HEUR/HTML.Malware"
Thanks,
Buffalo
 
Ant said:
Buffalo said:
Do NOT go to that site. Avira brings up a virus warning !!!!!
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Dunno how it manages that. There's no http server at 72.251.201.130
which is the IP I get for www[dot]freewaregenius.com. It is running
https but not responding.
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When I checked that site again, it would not respond, just like your
experience.
Buffalo
PS: I was going to send the 'found' malware file to Virustotal for a scan.
I don't have a copy and now I can't get one. Very strange.
 
Buffalo said:
Ant said:
Buffalo said:
Do NOT go to that site. Avira brings up a virus warning !!!!!
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Dunno how it manages that. There's no http server at 72.251.201.130
which is the IP I get for www[dot]freewaregenius.com. It is running
https but not responding.
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When I checked that site again, it would not respond, just like your
experience.
Buffalo
PS: I was going to send the 'found' malware file to Virustotal for a
scan. I don't have a copy and now I can't get one. Very strange.
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Just got that site and got the same warning and sent it to VirusTotal and
only McAfee and Avira tagged it with the same name
Results:
File D5EF059Bd01 received on 2010.01.26 17:54:51 (UTC)
Antivirus Version Last Update Result
a-squared 4.5.0.50 2010.01.26 -
AhnLab-V3 5.0.0.2 2010.01.26 -
AntiVir 7.9.1.150 2010.01.26 HEUR/HTML.Malware
Antiy-AVL 2.0.3.7 2010.01.26 -
Authentium 5.2.0.5 2010.01.26 -
Avast 4.8.1351.0 2010.01.26 -
AVG 9.0.0.730 2010.01.26 -
BitDefender 7.2 2010.01.26 -
CAT-QuickHeal 10.00 2010.01.25 -
ClamAV 0.94.1 2010.01.26 -
Comodo 3717 2010.01.26 -
DrWeb 5.0.1.12222 2010.01.26 -
eSafe 7.0.17.0 2010.01.26 -
eTrust-Vet 35.2.7260 2010.01.26 -
F-Prot 4.5.1.85 2010.01.26 -
F-Secure 9.0.15370.0 2010.01.26 -
Fortinet 4.0.14.0 2010.01.26 -
GData 19 2010.01.26 -
Ikarus T3.1.1.80.0 2010.01.26 -
Jiangmin 13.0.900 2010.01.26 -
K7AntiVirus 7.10.957 2010.01.26 -
Kaspersky 7.0.0.125 2010.01.26 -
McAfee 5873 2010.01.26 -
McAfee+Artemis 5873 2010.01.26 -
McAfee-GW-Edition 6.8.5 2010.01.26 Heuristic.HTML.Malware
Microsoft 1.5405 2010.01.26 -
NOD32 4807 2010.01.26 -
Norman 6.04.03 2010.01.26 -
nProtect 2009.1.8.0 2010.01.26 -
Panda 10.0.2.2 2010.01.25 -
PCTools 7.0.3.5 2010.01.26 -
Prevx 3.0 2010.01.26 -
Rising 22.32.01.04 2010.01.26 -
Sophos 4.50.0 2010.01.26 -
Sunbelt 3.2.1858.2 2010.01.26 -
Symantec 20091.2.0.41 2010.01.26 -
TheHacker 6.5.0.9.163 2010.01.26 -
TrendMicro 9.120.0.1004 2010.01.26 -
VBA32 3.12.12.1 2010.01.26 -
ViRobot 2010.1.26.2156 2010.01.26 -
VirusBuster 5.0.21.0 2010.01.26 -

Additional information
File size: 124634 bytes
MD5...: 81ce80d7eb56fbfca2a80cf40dd8ce0f
SHA1..: ed9cda28b4c71af7a480e4c0374df039d0bdae79
SHA256:
83ad5ad1ee563e94c8d1eb0097e27a14a02785d4dd37779e5523c9d4abc5a624
ssdeep:
1536:qPMNHFgWFPLYLqjpZFVTSlaHJ4SeZKYQwQvRCj/R:qPM1eEYMhVHJMMYQwQ<br>vRCj/R<b
r>
PEiD..: -
PEInfo: -
RDS...: NSRL Reference Data Set<br>-
pdfid.: -
sigcheck:<br>publisher....: n/a<br>copyright....:
n/a<br>product......: n/a<br>description..: n/a<br>original name:
n/a<br>internal name: n/a<br>file version.: n/a<br>comments.....:
n/a<br>signers......: -<br>signing date.: -<br>verified.....: Unsigned<br>
trid..: Atom web feed (69.6%)<br>HyperText Markup Language with
DOCTYPE (24.5%)<br>HyperText Markup Language (5.8%)
 
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