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From: Bill on 2 Feb 2010 08:11 Got stung by a fake av last night. It took a little work but I did get rid of if. Wasn't alot of fun tho. I'm using Avira free and the built in firewall on Windows xp Sp3. While Avira did find it, it found it after it was here. Would a firewall such as Outpost, Comodo, etc have detected it before it installed itself?
From: Leythos on 2 Feb 2010 08:28 In article <4b682499$0$4864$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, cull(a)junk.com says... > > Got stung by a fake av last night. It took a little work but I did get > rid of if. Wasn't alot of fun tho. I'm using Avira free and the built in > firewall on Windows xp Sp3. While Avira did find it, it found it after > it was here. Would a firewall such as Outpost, Comodo, etc have detected > it before it installed itself? Are you running as a local Admin on the computer? Did you have Avira fully updated, including the "Product" update? Are you sure you removed it? -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: FromTheRafters on 2 Feb 2010 14:26 "Bill" <cull(a)junk.com> wrote in message news:4b682499$0$4864$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > Got stung by a fake av last night. It took a little work but I did get > rid of if. Wasn't alot of fun tho. I'm using Avira free and the built > in firewall on Windows xp Sp3. While Avira did find it, it found it > after it was here. Ah, the Achilles' heel of the signature based scanner method. All such scanners will miss the 'new stuff' for a (hopefully short) period of time. Or maybe you were unaware the everything has to be "here" in order for it to be detected by AV running "here"? > Would a firewall such as Outpost, Comodo, etc have detected it before > it installed itself? Are you sure it "installed itself"?
From: The Central Scrutinizer on 2 Feb 2010 19:18
The important thing to remember is that dozens of variations of fake av are created daily. Hopefully your AV will do heuristics as well. If you are using only AV protection and are running as local admin, just do the wipe and reinstall. If you are running vista/windows7 make sure you use UAC. "Bill" <cull(a)junk.com> wrote in message news:4b682499$0$4864$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... > Got stung by a fake av last night. It took a little work but I did get rid > of if. Wasn't alot of fun tho. I'm using Avira free and the built in > firewall on Windows xp Sp3. While Avira did find it, it found it after it > was here. Would a firewall such as Outpost, Comodo, etc have detected it > before it installed itself? |