AV test

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by minacross, Aug 13, 2008.

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  1. minacross

    minacross Registered Member

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    I had some spare time :cool: so I decided to make a test
    - I created 4 files containing the eicat test file: .txt,.com,.exe,.bat .
    - I added them to a .7z archive.
    - I added the .7z archive to a .zip archive.
    - I added the .zip archive to a .gz archikve.
    then I submitted the three archives to virustotal.com. The site showed almost the same results in the 3 cases, only 8 scanner out of 36 detected the file.. :doubt:
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    does this have any significance? Can any AV guru comment on this pls? o_O
    thanx in advance..
    BTW, it was surprising seeing that the "new" Chinese Rising AV is among the 8 AVs
     
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  2. ola nordmann

    ola nordmann Registered Member

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    Your test is pretty worthless, I'm sorry to say:p

    Most scanners have a limit on archive recursion, because it takes a long time to unpack and also it can take up a lot of memory (or temp files) to scan an absurd number of archives within archives.

    The thing is every realtime scanner will detect as soon as you unpack, so the malware can never do harm anyway :)
     
  3. pykko

    pykko Registered Member

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    Not all scanners support 7zip and\or gz atchive types.
    Then not all scanners have proper settings to scan inside multiple packed files.
     
  4. Fajo

    Fajo Registered Member

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    Scanning archives really is pointless. as soon as the sucker is extracted it will get nabed by the real time scanner. so whats the point about worrying about archives. ?
     
  5. Fly

    Fly Registered Member

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    I'd say that scanning archives is useful. Better to catch something before it has a chance to execute !

    On the other hand, if AV's scanned archives within archives without end, it would be easy to disable the AV !
     
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    jrmhng Registered Member

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    Rather pointless I'd say because as soon as a virus is extracted, it will be caught.
     
  7. Fajo

    Fajo Registered Member

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    with avira it don't even have to be tried to be executed. im sure the same with other AV's as soon as the file is Exacted to desktop or anywhere else its scanned even before you try to run it.
     
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