Test your Anti Virus

WindowsStar said:

tw33k said:

Like I said before about Avira, maybe Vipre knows it isn't a real virus and ignores it. However, I don't think that this inspires much confidence

Agreed, however I have done many other tests, posted in other Threads where VIPRE has failed. At this point I will not recommend it and would tell people to completely avoid it. On a special test machine the machine has become infected 8 times so far with VIPRE installed. Installing another AV and disabling VIPRE will clean up the machine. Lay down a fresh image and start all over with another AV and everything is caught, so far only VIPRE is failing all the tests we have thrown at it.

Interesting. Thanks

TY for the information. I am ok.

McAfee detected it...

AVG picked it up on clicking save.

richc46 said:

TY for the information. I am ok.

this is a good test as to wether your AV's detecting mechanisms is working properly. however, it's not assurance as to wether your AV is good against false negatives.

Zone Alarm picked it up the moment i hit save

arkhi said:

this is a good test as to wether your AV's detecting mechanisms is working properly. however, it's not assurance as to wether your AV is good against false negatives.

true.. but in this case, it is a false positive, so if your AV never picked up false positives you would think it wasn't doing its job, when in fact it was doing it perfectly, and would get rid of the perfect antivirus... yeah... get your heads round that

severedsolo said:

Zone Alarm picked it up the moment i hit save

arkhi said:

this is a good test as to wether your AV's detecting mechanisms is working properly. however, it's not assurance as to wether your AV is good against false negatives.

true.. but in this case, it is a false positive, so if your AV never picked up false positives you would think it wasn't doing its job, when in fact it was doing it perfectly, and would get rid of the perfect antivirus... yeah... get your heads round that

I get what you mean and agree

IceFire said:

arkhi said:

this is a good test as to wether your AV's detecting mechanisms is working properly. however, it's not assurance as to wether your AV is good against false negatives.

Imagine if somebody designed a virus in a way that it gets flagged as a false positive.
Also: ClamXav caught it immediately

ClamXav? I thought that AV was for Macs?