AV-Test proves antimalware apps can restore infected computers
AV-Test proves antimalware apps can restore infected computers
Posted: 07 Aug 2014
Andreas Marx, CEO and founder of AV-Test, emailed me about AV-Test's newest long-term study. Marx attached the press release 17 software packages in a repair performance test after malware attacks. I have written about AV-Test studies before, but this project had special significance. If Marx and his crew determined which antimalware applications indeed restored computers to pre-infection conditions, I know several IT pros who would be appreciative.
Marx and AV-Test engineers spent the last ten months determining whether several popular antivirus software packages and malware-cleaning tools did what their developers advertised -- clean and repair Windows-based computers after being infected by malware.
Why on Earth would we even THINK of needing this -- another case of somebody in a declining industry trying to sell products which aren't really needed any more.
What's wrong with simply restoring a clean image - which you should have anyway -- always take regular backups. Why in the world would I trust running ANY application on an already infected computer to cleanse itself 100% !!!!
IMO the only way is a Stand alone restore -- even on a large windows installation - 30 mins at most -- and as more and more people now have SSD's - maybe you could do a complete OS restore in as little as 10 mins.
Always keep OS and Pgms in its own HDD / Partition -- Your own data on the other HDD's / Partitions.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Custom built, several laptops HP/ASUS OS: Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers CPU: Intel i7 Intel i5 Memory: 8GB, 16GB Graphics Card: On Motherboard Sound Card: Realtek HD audio Monitor(s) Displays: Apple Cinema display, Samsung LCD Screen Resolution: 1920 X 1080 Mouse: Toshiba wireless laser Hard Drives: 4 X 1TB SATA Internet Speed: > 20MB up
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Custom Built OS: Windows 10 Pro CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Processor with Radeon RX Vega 11 Graphics Motherboard: ASRock X470 Master SLI/AC AM4 AMD Promontory X470 SATA 6Gb/s Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM D Graphics Card: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (EVGA) Sound Card: Motherboard Built in Monitor(s) Displays: Acer R240HY bidx 23.8-Inch IPS HDMI DVI VGA (1920 x 1080) Wi Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Keyboard: Wired Dell keyboard Mouse: Wireless Logitech mouse PSU: CORSAIR TX Series TX650M 650W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply Case: CORSAIR CARBIDE SPEC-02 Mid-Tower Gaming Case, Red LED Fan Cooling: 220mm, two 120mm, and four 60mm fans Hard Drives: 1TB Sandisk SSD PLUS (Main drive)
500 GB Seagate 7200 RPM (Games)
500 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM (Virtual Machines) Internet Speed: 250mb down, 30mb up Browser: Chrome-ish x64 Antivirus: Panda Cloud Antivirus Other Info: Your awesome for reading this.
Jimbo, how could you be certain your image is clean?
Answer-You can't.
And you also have to think about the average user here. Most would not be able to do that.
Hi there
The same answer that the anti-malware software says -- You have a Virus. If it doesn't report then what's the difference between restoring the image or getting the AV system to "clean it up".
I think also people underestimate the capability of the average user --OK people open up stupid email attachments and get conned by the most obvious of scams but inserting a USB into USB slot and booting up a stand alone recovery program and following simple on screen instructions isn't a mega problem.
Most of the people who get VIRUSES etc are those using torrent sites etc -- Well if you are sophisticated enough to use a site like THIS one (Scr shot enc) then I'd assume you certainly know how to backup and restore a computer. (Torrent site URL not shown - in any case it's blocked ("leakily !!") in UK / Belgium / Italy etc but you get the idea) .
I doubt if my old Grandma would even be aware of these types of sites !!.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Custom built, several laptops HP/ASUS OS: Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers CPU: Intel i7 Intel i5 Memory: 8GB, 16GB Graphics Card: On Motherboard Sound Card: Realtek HD audio Monitor(s) Displays: Apple Cinema display, Samsung LCD Screen Resolution: 1920 X 1080 Mouse: Toshiba wireless laser Hard Drives: 4 X 1TB SATA Internet Speed: > 20MB up
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