Network Associates - No listing for viruses their software finds?

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Both at work and at home I run Mcafee/Network Associates. On two
occasions, the software has found a virus for which no information seems
to exist. They are:

stoned.am
JV/Xideo

However, when I go to verify what they are at Network Associates I don't
find any information on them. How can their software detect and name a
virus without them having any information on it? Note that a Google on
JV/Xideo only turned up a University of Calgary site that had a
detection. I've never found anything on stoned.am. TIA.

Mike
 
myk said:
Both at work and at home I run Mcafee/Network Associates. On two
occasions, the software has found a virus for which no information seems
to exist. They are:

stoned.am
JV/Xideo

However, when I go to verify what they are at Network Associates I don't
find any information on them. How can their software detect and name a
virus without them having any information on it? Note that a Google on
JV/Xideo only turned up a University of Calgary site that had a
detection. I've never found anything on stoned.am. TIA.

Mike
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Later renamed?
Do you still have them? No? SWAT?
 
Seems to be deleted. But since I don't open attachments, have my
security maxed on my Mozilla browser, have two firewalls (server and
local machine), and do weekly virus scans, I have to wonder where did it
come from? More fundamentally however, Network Associates is running
software which identifies viruses. Part of the package is providing
information on those same viruses. So, I ask again, how can their
software identify a virus which does not seem to exist anywhere. Even a
renamed virus should have some reference information.
 
myk said:
Seems to be deleted. But since I don't open attachments, have my
security maxed on my Mozilla browser, have two firewalls (server and
local machine), and do weekly virus scans, I have to wonder where did it
come from? More fundamentally however, Network Associates is running
software which identifies viruses. Part of the package is providing
information on those same viruses. So, I ask again, how can their
software identify a virus which does not seem to exist anywhere. Even a
renamed virus should have some reference information.
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Ask McAfee TechSupport http://us.mcafee.com/root/support.asp?cid=9045
 
The free online help is a software 'bot which is as useless as teets on
a bull. I can't think who it helps but it can't answer a question like
this (I tried).
 
myk said:
The free online help is a software 'bot which is as useless as teets on
a bull. I can't think who it helps but it can't answer a question like
this (I tried).
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Bullshit. It is not a software but "Real time" Support
 
SFB said:
Bullshit. It is not a software but "Real time" Support
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This is nothing new. I have logged several infectors that were NOT in the McAfee library
yet they were detected with a name. If you execute; scan /virlist /html
"c:\VirusList.html" the you can see the name of the virus that was identified. What is
not in the library ? I don't know but maybe its an example virus that was accidentally
released into the wild or other reason. However, not all the infectors known to McAfee are
found in the McAfee library.

Dave

BTW: myk, Is that your TRUE email address ?



| Both at work and at home I run Mcafee/Network Associates. On two
| occasions, the software has found a virus for which no information seems
| to exist. They are:
|
| stoned.am
| JV/Xideo
|
| However, when I go to verify what they are at Network Associates I don't
| find any information on them. How can their software detect and name a
| virus without them having any information on it? Note that a Google on
| JV/Xideo only turned up a University of Calgary site that had a
| detection. I've never found anything on stoned.am. TIA.
|
| Mike
 
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