- Norton AV 2005 version. I HAVE NEVER FOUND A VIRUS ?? WHY?
- Posted by Pedro Sanchez on May 24th, 2006
Norton AV 2005, I've used this thing for a LOOOOOONG time and have all
the current definitions. The thing has ***NEVER*** found a
trojan/worm/virus.
I think that's got to be impossible because I do some pretty dangerous
things downloadwise.
So, is there a AV program I could use WITH Norton AV[or without] that
would detect a larger number of viruses?
I would need one that has definition updates of course.
thanks,
pedro
- Posted by Art on May 24th, 2006
On Wed, 24 May 2006 17:39:05 -0400, Pedro Sanchez
<Dr.PedroSanchez@yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, NAV's detection rates aren't at all bad. You should be running
scans for spyware and adware as well. I suggest Spybot and AdAware.
Then to see if NAV is missing malware on your machine, download
the KAVDOSNT util from my web site and let it scan your drive(s).
It may well find stuff NAV has missed.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
- Posted by Morpheus on May 24th, 2006
Art Wrote:
agreed im running the norten 2005 with spybot and adaware and using th
yahoo browser that comes with a ani-spy scanner too! now they (spybo
and adaware) nail viruses all the time....the norten just sits off i
the back idle sorta speak....but when it comes to trojans it picks i
up rather quickly....but yea if u run those 3 u should never have an
problems
--
Morpheu
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- Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on May 25th, 2006
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
Never? Nothing wrong with that. Perhaps nobody ever sent you a virus.
You didn't say if you've tested it.
To do that, copy the following one-line into a text file and save it
somewhere. Name it "eicar.txt" or similar. Don't put any carriage
returns at the end of the line. Then scan it.
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
- Posted by Ron Lopshire on May 25th, 2006
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
LOL. Reminds me of people who bitch because the police officers and
firemen and women are all sitting on their asses doing nothing. If
this is due to no crime, no fires and no emergencies, WTF is the problem?
Ron 
- Posted by Snowsquall on May 25th, 2006
"Art" <null@zilch.com> wrote in message
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I went to Art's website, and clicked on the file KAVDOSNT and speaking of
Norton *never* reacting, it sure did this time. As soon as I went to
download the file KAVDOSNT Norton popped and said it was
"trojan.galapoper.A"!!
--And I had planned to run that file!!
Seriously I trust Art and wonder if this is a false positive??
- Posted by Art on May 25th, 2006
On Thu, 25 May 2006 18:44:01 -0400, "Snowsquall"
<Snowsquall157@sympatico.ca> wrote:
So why didn't you upload to Virus Total? Here's what it
says:
AntiVir 6.34.1.32 05.25.2006 no virus found
Authentium 4.93.8 05.26.2006 no virus found
Avast 4.6.695.0 05.24.2006 no virus found
AVG 386 05.25.2006 no virus found
BitDefender 7.2 05.26.2006 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 8.00 05.25.2006 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20060426 05.25.2006 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 05.25.2006 no virus found
eTrust-InoculateIT23.72.1805.26.2006 no virus found
eTrust-Ve12.6.2227 05.25.2006 no virus found
Ewido 3.5 05.25.2006 no virus found
Fortinet 2.77.0.0 05.26.2006 no virus found
F-Prot 3.16c 05.25.2006 no virus found
Ikarus 0.2.65.0 05.24.2006 no virus found
Kaspersky4.0.2.24 05.26.2006 no virus found
McAfee 4770 05.25.2006 no virus found
Microsoft 1.1440 05.22.2006 no virus found
NOD32v2 1.1559 05.25.2006 no virus found
Norman 5.90.17 05.24.2006 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 05.25.2006 no virus found
Sophos 4.05.0 05.26.2006 no virus found
Symantec 8.0 05.26.2006 no virus found
TheHacker5.9.8.147 05.24.2006 no virus found
UNA 1.83 05.24.2006 no virus found
VBA32 no 05.25.2006 no virus found
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
- Posted by Snowsquall on May 26th, 2006
"Art" <null@zilch.com> wrote in message
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no virus found
But Norton on *my machine* comes up with this trojan.galaper.A when
attempting to download it. So I turned off my auto protect and then down
loaded it.
I then sent it to VirusTotal and my results were Fortinet "suspicious" and
Panda "suspicious file"
All the rest "no virus found" including Symantec (Norton)
I ran Housecall but it did not find any suspicious files even though I have
KAVDOSNT sitting on my desk top.
Then I scanned KAVDOSNT with Norton and it came up clean. Then I put on
autoprotect and tried to download it again. Same thing. So I pressed OK on
the Norton pop and then proceded to download the file. The file
successfully downloaded and it was scanned clean by Norton.
So my question is what is causing the trojan alert and why do Panda and
Fortinet call it suspicious?
- Posted by Art on May 26th, 2006
On Thu, 25 May 2006 20:31:12 -0400, "Snowsquall"
<Snowsquall157@sympatico.ca> wrote:
That's odd since I had just done the same and those two reported "no
virus found" just like all the rest.
Yep.
You may have different scan settings for realtime than on-demand.
Try setting them equal and see what happens. Other than that shot
in the dark, I dunno.
I have no idea. Submit the file to them for analysis if you're curious
enough. Personally, I'm not 
And if you're that curious, you can extract the files from
KAVDOSNT.exe to try to find out which file "inside" is causing
the alert. If you're scared to run my self extracting file (SFX)
you can use certain decompressors to extract them. Many
popular "unzippers" will extract the contents just as if it's
..ZIP file (which it is but with a self-extractor wrapped "on top".
In fact, now you are getting me slightly curious. Let me know
which file NAV alerts on. It may not be one of "my" files at
all It may be one of the freeware utils I have bundled in
there. That would be even more hilarious
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
- Posted by Snowsquall on May 26th, 2006
"Art" <null@zilch.com> wrote in message
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NAV does not alert on the KAVDOSNT.exe at all. *Only* when I attempt to
download it with autoprotect on will it alert.
I did extract the files, found your personal email address and will attempt
to send the file through email and see if it gets by scanners.
It may not be one of "my" files at
- Posted by Art on May 26th, 2006
On Fri, 26 May 2006 16:36:20 -0400, "Snowsquall"
<Snowsquall157@sympatico.ca> wrote:
It did, and I responded to your email. As I said in that email, the
file is intact. I ran it and everything is fine, so my site hasn't
been hacked, apparently
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
