NOD32 does not fiond Hackarmy.gen

It is like the Osama is death-file, You find the links to it from usenet. It says Arnold Schwartzzegger committed suicide. In the zip-file there is a .scr -file which Nod32 beta says is clean (so do many other AV-programs). But the tough ones like Kaspersky, F-secure, McAfee and Panda report immediately that it is infected with Hackarmy.gen-virus. I am very diasappointed to NOD with this.
Jaska

 

Hello,
Please take a look at http://www.nod32.com/support/info.htm#CurVersion and search for Hackarmy. There are 7 variants of this trojan detected by NOD32. The one you have was detected as a generic sample - if you have the most current version installed (1.820) and NOD didn't pick it up though, please submit the file to samples@eset.com for analysis.

 

It did not detect it for me either with the latest definitions and I submitted the virus to ESET.

 

I also thought that NOD32 was suppose to detect viruses with it's advanced herusitic even without a vrus definition for it. This is what I thought made NOD32 one of the best Antivirus programs.

 

Did you have the AV tweaked out fully or were you using it in its default configuration?

 

Tweaked out fully.

 

I had also my options to scan everything as deep as possible. This one seems to be a hard bite for AV-proggies as many big players like Norton does not find it. And Nod didn't find anything even after it had infected my machine (did it with purpose, restored then a clean image...)
Jaska

 

Eset sent me a aconfirmation today that it is a new variant of Hackarmy and they will add detection for it as soon as possible.

 

Thanks for keeping us in the loop...

Cheers

 

Yes this problem has been reported here too.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=42782

Only Norman detects it heuristically.

 

The latest version of NOD32 (1.821) already detects it.