E trust 7 Promo and trojans

[Jason Voorhees]

Hi,

Am I in the need for an extra AT when running Etrust resident and fully updated?

I use The cleaner 3.5 also, but i'm starting to belief it's sitting there now, only eating resources.

I also run ZA PRO 4.

I have no idea on how the Inoculate & Vet engine cope with trojans.

Are they (both) as good as Kaspersky or Macafee ?

I use Inoculate for on-acces and Vet for my weekly "deep" on -demand scan.

I also run from time to time Housecall or RAV online.

Can Etrust handle polymorphic or .DLL injecting malware ?

thanks,

Jason.

[DolfTraanberg]

Hi Jason,
I should never RELY on an AV for detecting Trojans, some of them have some heuristic detection and signatures but it's only an extra, which you should not depend on
Dolf

[wizard]

{QUOTE-> quoting: Jason Voorhees link=board=24;threadid=17828;start=0#msg110009 date=1071340758]
Am I in the need for an extra AT when running Etrust resident and fully updated? <-QUOTE}

Yes, together with Etrust I would recommend a seperate AT program.

{QUOTE-> I use The cleaner 3.5 also, but i'm starting to belief it's sitting there now, only eating resources. <-QUOTE}

Important for an AT program is that is has either an unpacking engine or a memory scanner. As far I remember TheCleaner3.5 hasn't got any of these options and therefore could be considered more or less as "useless".

{QUOTE-> Are they (both) as good as Kaspersky or Macafee ? <-QUOTE}

No. KAV is still the "leading" av software in this special area: backdoor trojans and unpacking.

{QUOTE-> Can Etrust handle polymorphic or .DLL injecting malware ? <-QUOTE}

Every av program is able to handle polymorphic malware but the quality depends from program to program. In terms of *.dll injecting malware I am not sure what you exactly mean. If it comes to detect malware in an *.dll file that's no problem for an av - of course the malware has to be known to the av in this case.


wizard