Heuristics detectings contra cleaning infected files!

[Firefighter]

Just wondering, do you mainly need signatures before you can clean infected files?

Best regards,
Firefighter!

[Technodrome]

I'd say yes unless we are talking about generic virus detection.


tD

[Marcos]

It's not about signatures only, a cleaning algorithm for a particular virus must be supported as well.

[Firefighter]

-{ Quote: "It's not about signatures only, a cleaning algorithm for a particular virus must be supported as well." }-So, to have the best working user friendly protection available, there is a must to have an excellent heuristics, short delays to signature updates after suspicious files, a cleaning algorithm for a particular virus, capability to scan all kind of archives because the need to clean those files inside those archives, what more? Where we can find that beauty?

Best regards,
Firefighter!

[cupez80]

no AV has all that aspect yet :D beauty is very subjective

[Firecat]

Future versions of AV heuristic engines may automatically scan the registry for entries related to the file name of the infected file and delete such malicious entries.

Also, these future versions may offer an option to try and do a "generic/heuristical cleaning" of the file, after safely quaranting it.