Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Online Antivirus scanners --

Hi All,

Today our topic of discussion is Antiviruses. I do have a file which is a variant of a virus I mean to say its a infected file . Any AV that is a good one should classify it as an infected file. Now lets see the results. For the  purpose of experimentation I have choosen the online scanner http://www.garyshood.com/virus/ .


http://www.garyshood.com/virus/ is a web based service which will scan files for infections . It uses many AVs to scan the file and gives results from each AV in plain text ,understandable format.

Lets see the results of my experiment.


Clamav--> infected

F-Prot-->infected

AntiVir-->infected

BitDefender-->clean

AVG -->clean

So see the results and decide for yourself !!'!

Caution : if the file is shown as clean doesn't mean to be AV is guilty . It might be the case that we should look at no of false positives and false negatives to decide .




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