Re: AVG virus software fails to detect viruses!!!

From: Ken Russell (rusty_at_theseams.com.au)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:18:10 +1100

I use AVG free version and I was quite happy with it until read this thread.

I just ran HouseCall and it found Mydoom.dam in one of my zip backup files
on my backup partition. Before deleting it I then ran AVG on the infected
file and it found nothing.

Now that's a definite worry :-(

Strangely, the virus wasn't present in the original files. 

-- 
Ken Russell
"half_pint" <esboella.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c0683s$vjh28$1@ID-204080.news.uni-berlin.de...
| AVG virus software fails to detect viruses!!!
|
| I ran a virus scan today with an uptoday version
| of AGV 6 virus software. Fine, no viruses detected.
| I then decided to run it on my old hard drive (d:)which
| I had connected as a slave drive.
| Result virus found!!!
|
| This was a surprise because my old drive was a copy
| of my current drive!!!
| Anyway the virus/trojan was "startpage" or startpage.DG
| or whatever it is called (it's 'harmless' one), it
| was hiding in
| d:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\msinfo\msinfo.exe
| (57,244 bytes)
|
| I then went back to my c: drive and checked in this location and
| sure enough the same file was there and it was reported as a virus
| with an *individual* AGV file scan.
| I was a bit shocked at this so I ran a complete check on my c:drive
| again (Opened AGV and clicked 'run complete test' (although it appears
| to only check your main drive anyway!) and it ran its check on
| drive c:, - result - no viruses found!! even though an individual
| check on the file (which I did not remove) shows it to be a
| virus/trojan!!.
|
| So it appears AGV virus software is *serioously* flawed!!!!
|
| I believe I knew about this virus for some time as I had removed
| most of it before with some anti-hijack software so it did not
| affect my computer.
|
| However I was shocked to discover that AGV's virus scan missed it
| completely!
| AGV's anti virus appears to have a *serious* flaw in it.
|
| --
| regards half_pint.
|
|
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