Test your Anti Virus

[tw33k]

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I love how G Data notes that it's not a virus! I'm so tempted to give it a try

 

[Dinesh]

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I love how G Data notes that it's not a virus! I'm so tempted to give it a try

LOL. Nice catch.

 

[Parry]

Avira din't detect it.
First saved it to Desktop - Nothing!
Then to cross check saved it to Documents Folder - Still Nothing!

 

[tw33k]

Avira din't detect it.
First saved it to Desktop - Nothing!
Then to cross check saved it to Documents Folder - Still Nothing!

Was Avira up to date?

 

[Parry]

Was Avira up to date?

Yes, it was day before yesterday only I clean installed W7 Pro; installed Avira 10 & updated.

 

[tw33k]

Was Avira up to date?

Yes, it was day before yesterday only I clean installed W7 Pro; installed Avira 10 & updated.

Avira's reviews tend to be up and down depending on who you listen to. Having said that, one of my most trusted resources is AV Comparatives. In their latest testing Avira Premium (not free) achieved their highest score A+ (along with a few other programs) I don't use Avira but I would certainly have expected it to detect this. The only thing I can say is that maybe it knows the file is harmless and let's it go. I'm stretching it a bit I know. If I were you, irrespective of this, I would look around at other vendor's websites. There are better products available

 

[Everlong]

I've disabled resident shield like SE, so AVG didn't pick it up on save, but manually scanning it picked it up.

Edit: Enabling resident shield and adding txt files to the scanned files picks it up straight away as soon as it's saved.

 

[tw33k]

I've disabled resident shield like SE, so AVG didn't pick it up on save, but manually scanning it picked it up.

Edit: Enabling resident shield and adding txt files to the scanned files picks it up straight away as soon as it's saved.

 

[Parry]

If I were you, irrespective of this, I would look around at other vendor's websites. There are better products available

Yeah, after going through What's the Best Anti-virus?
I too was a bit unsure of Avira & wanted to go for Avast. Is that what you are trying to point?

 

[Heroxoot]

deleted by eset. AMAHGAWD, what does that do?

 

[tw33k]

If I were you, irrespective of this, I would look around at other vendor's websites. There are better products available

Yeah, after going through What's the Best Anti-virus?
I too was a bit unsure of Avira & wanted to go for Avast. Is that what you are trying to point?

I would choose Avast over Avira yes.

 

[Parry]

I would choose Avast over Avira yes.

Thanks!

 

[tw33k]

My pleasure

 

[teddy0209]

avira premium security suite picked it up

 

[WindowsStar]

VIPRE did not catch it but so far in my testing it does not catch anything. This is the most USELESS AV software I have ever used.

McAfee 8.7i wouldn't even let me save it, it was screaming before I could do much of anything.

Tally: McAfee v8.7i = YES
Vipre = NO

Edit: VIPRE also has bad support. Never reply to issues and are arrogant about their software telling me that it is impossible it works perfectly. 3 different test machines can't be wrong.

 

[si8mon]

Avast 5 didn't pick it up immediately since I live vicariously without a resident scanner enabled, but it did pick it up when manually scanned.

Same, but my real-time protection is enabled! But when i tried to download the antivirus test file Avast 5 immediately stopped me downloading it.

 

[tw33k]

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

 

[WindowsStar]

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.

 

[Parry]

Uninstalled Avira & installed Avast, still it did'nt detect the file.
Saved it twice, once on the desktop & then in the documents but nothing.

Yeah, but on manual scanning the file it did say 'Threat Detected!'.

 

[Nem]

Gotta love avast for stopping the download and aborting the connection.