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How good is your antivirus?

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Since most would like to argue bout what is the best antivirus. I decided to open this thread solely for testing your preferred antivirus. This is a compilation of a group of hackers.

*************WARNING*************

THIS IS NOT FOR THE SCAREDY CATS. THERE ARE ALL VALID VIRUSES. DO NOT OPEN THEM OR EXTRACT THEM TO ANY LOCATION. SAFEST METHOD TO TEST YOUR ANTIVIRUS IS TO SCAN THE COMPRESSED FILE. I WILL NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITIES FOR YOUR ACTION.

Here's a link to download an archive file containing the viruses. READ THE WARNING BELOW BEFORE CLICKING HERE

TEST THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK

If you dare to take this challenge, do post the screenshots of the antivirus in action and please do not use any Photoshoping skills to manipulate the results.

Try to post at least the following information for others to evaluate

1) Program/scan engine version (Exm NAV 2004, AVG 6 Paid Version, SAV 9.0.0.338 and etc)

2) Any settings you changed

3) Screenshots (Optional as proof)

EDIT: Contrary to the filename which tells you 455 viruses, no it is not. Actual total is 593. If your antivirus detected them all, well done.

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Slimy

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Cheers Sensey, another helpful neowinian already sent it to me. Cheers again though

Norton Antivrius 2002 picked up 588.

Guess thats pretty descent.

So im happy.

how are you happy that it can detect them but not delete them?

norton is the worst series: it uses way too many resources and does crap

symantec corp is the way to go :D

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Not surprising, NOD32 is a mediocre AV, theres plenty better options than that one.. It consistantly fails every test I put it through.

I'm impressed as usual with eXtendia AVK and Kaspersky performance.. Can't go wrong with either, but AVK is only $29, sooo.... Probably a better option for most people.

Symantec Corp isn't a viable purchase option for home users that don't want to "Download cracked" products unfortunately, so everyones left with Norton, which I don't even consider to be a viable AV product. Throw some packers on those viruses, and Norton drops to 4% detection. Rebase them, and it drops to 0...

Not good.

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Symantec Corp isn't a viable purchase option for home users that don't want to "Download cracked" products unfortunately, so everyones left with Norton,

You always still could get it through campus site licensing, that's where i get mine from.

@hypoxiaicon

How long did Norton 2005 took to scan those files? I just saw it is finally on par with SAV, getting 589!!

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You always still could get it through campus site licensing, that's where i get mine from.

@hypoxiaicon

How long did Norton 2005 took to scan those files? I just saw it is finally on par with SAV, getting 589!!

I couldnt tell you... About.. 30-40 seconds. Want me download and test it again?

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I couldnt tell you... About.. 30-40 seconds. Want me download and test it again?

Uhm, that's up to you. I was just curious to see how Norton 2005 compares with SAV. SAV took 23 seconds.

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Still lacking compared with SAV. oh boy i am soo glad i got SAV, no stupid product activation and not a memory resource hogger.

Anyone with another compilation of viruses? Maybe we start the How good is your antivirus? 2nd edition :)

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Ok, this is scary. My results were not very good. Using the latest dat files with Norton AV 2004 Pro. Should I change to some other AV software?

Hahaha man you are just crawling with disease :pinch:

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This is rather worrying....

Downloaded this file to my desktop, and scanned my desktop and got this:

455av.JPG

With Norton AV2004 Pro, Virus Def's: 25/06/04.

Will install and try Symantec Anti-Virus v9.

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Norton Anti-Virus 2003 Pro Updated (Virus Defs) Today. Fully updated except for some crap i don't think is worth downloading (like symantec common client updates).

Got 588 of the files. That means it missed out 5 of the viruses which seems quite bad but not too bad. I am pretty pleased seeing as others got loads missed by their AV.

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Dude, it wont pick it up if you havent set it to scan compressed files.

Ok.... Should Compressed files be enabled by default ?

If not, how's it done ?

-=EDIT=- Just went through Options, and it's enabled, even for Autoscan....

comfiles.JPG

So This is even more concertning, at the fact that it's supposed to scan compressed files, but still hasn't picked up them virus's ?!?

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Ferret

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10 lol :no: and what is that I see keygens :o very bad :ninja:

No mate - Thats where I store my home video's... Calling it "keygens" stop's people thinking it's my "Home Video's" !!! :p

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Installed AVG Free edition this morning and tested. It found 556 viruses. 3 less than AVG 7 Pro. I didn't want to, but took AVG 7 off and re-installed my old copy of Norton AV 2003. It found 588. One nice thing though is that I was expecting to have to pay for a subscription, but it gave me a year free.

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