Advanced Heuristics stops Win32/Bagle.AS

Nod32 at its best...

Before a virus definition was added to Nod32’s database, Bagle.AS was identified as "unknown NewHeur_PE virus". A definition has now been added.

You can track the spread of Win32/Bagle.AS on www.virus-radar.com

More information will be published on www.nod32.ch soon.

Cheers

 

Thanks for posting this. It is good to be reminded occasionally in this forum of how effective NOD32 is, as most of the posts - for obvious reasons in a suppport forum - relate to problems, defects, what NOD32 apparently didn't detect, what score NOD32 achieved in some virtual laboratory test etc.

 

Great!

NOD32, the power of heuristics...

 

My pleasure.

Cheers

 

Very nice!! it seeems the wellknown as best av of all times kaspersky had to update its database this morning to catch it...lol...;;;

 

Just to show some really interesting numbers.... NOD32 in action

Number of probably unknown NewHeur_PE virus in 2004-10-29 10 is 3512.
The last 12 hours history:
2004-10-29 10 : 3512
2004-10-29 09 : 8022
2004-10-29 08 : 3409
2004-10-29 07 : 53
2004-10-29 06 : 0
2004-10-29 05 : 1
2004-10-29 04 : 0
2004-10-29 03 : 0
2004-10-29 02 : 0
2004-10-29 01 : 0
2004-10-29 00 : 0
2004-10-28 23 : 0

 

http://www.virus-radar.com/index_enu.html

Virus Count Infection Ratio (%) Infection Ratio
01. Win32/Bagle.AS worm 198 075 6.226 % 1/ 16.1

plus about 7000 samples detected by AH

 

As I recall many times, heuristic is very very important for proactive protection. Thanks for all Eset to do a product that has a good heuristic and not only a AV that is fully based on databases/signatures.

 

Yep, NOD32 saved my but today. I saw an email when I was checking my work email from home that looked like it was from someone I hadn't heard from in a long time. Unfortunately I opened it, due to extreme curiousity, even though I knew it looked suspicisous. Luckily NOD 32 came to the rescue: Virus Log - Win32/Bagle.AU worm - connection terminated! Hopefully I learned my lesson.

 

Nah, you just wanted to put Nod through its paces

Good to see it was stopped on your machine, now I can open that email that was making me curious