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NinthShot
January 2nd, 2009, 01:16 PM
Does ESET keep descriptions anywhere of the virus types that it finds? I have a user that somehow got himself infected with one or more strains of malware and I'm trying to determine what exactly he acquired.

I've tried the Threat Encyclopedia (http://www.eset.com/threat-center/encyclopedia.php), but that doesn't list any of what Smart Security found.

For reference, I'm trying to look up:
Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.TF
Win32/Cimag
Win32/Patched.AE

Fixer
January 2nd, 2009, 04:23 PM
I found information only about Win32/Patched.AE:
http://blog.spywarecease.com/spyware-list/Spyware_Trojan.Win32.Patched.ae.html

Kosak
January 3rd, 2009, 03:07 PM
ESET makes descriptions for interesting samples, not for everyone, which is detected. But as you can see name of same threats, eg. "Win32/TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.TF", you have to know that it's downloader, which downloads application, which shows fake pop-up windows etc. Other AV company can have different name for some malware, eg. Nuwar (ESET), Zhelatin (Alwil),... I recommend to use Google or another search service for searching information.

NinthShot
January 6th, 2009, 10:08 AM
-{ Quote: "ESET makes descriptions for interesting samples, not for everyone, which is detected." }-
Not the answer I was hoping for, but thanks for the help (and for the link, Fixer).