Why comodo IS detects a file as malicious only after I run it?

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by flik, May 21, 2010.

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  1. flik

    flik Registered Member

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    Hi, I decided to try ComodoIS v4 and I found it very good. So I download a trojan to test the sandbox. Comodo antivirus did not detect the file when i downloaded it, neither when I scanned it. But when I ran it, just after the sandbox alert, a windows came up showing that comodo antivirus has been detected it as trojan.
    Does comodo scan furthermore when the file is being executed?
     
  2. Noob

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    Probably because it's on stateful config?

    Try changing the AV to On Access and see :rolleyes:
     
  3. risl

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    Maybe because it's unable to unpack/decrypt the .exe and finds the signature when the file gets decrypted in runtime.
     
  4. RejZoR

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    Can you post a screenshot of a detection popup? I'd say it's an in-memory detection (like BOClean used to work). There is certain malware that only gets detected on runtime...
     
  5. flik

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    I think that it's a classic detection popup.
    Unfortunately now it detects it when I download it, although I haven't change it from stateful to on-access setting.
    But yesterday I repeated more than 15 times. I was downloading without an alert, and I was scanning it with right click->scan with comodo and it wasn't finding anything. Only after I run it.
    I think that it's not about stateful or on-access. Maybe risl is correct, but I don't know how exactly comodo works
     

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  6. smage

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    Hi it might be the memory scanner(BoClean) which is detecting the trojan.
     
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