Heuristics detectings contra cleaning infected files!

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by Firefighter, Dec 17, 2005.

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  1. Firefighter

    Firefighter Registered Member

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    Just wondering, do you mainly need signatures before you can clean infected files?

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    Firefighter, Dec 17, 2005
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    I'd say yes unless we are talking about generic virus detection.


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  3. Marcos

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    It's not about signatures only, a cleaning algorithm for a particular virus must be supported as well.
     
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  4. Firefighter

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    So, to have the best working user friendly protection available, there is a must to have an excellent heuristics, short delays to signature updates after suspicious files, a cleaning algorithm for a particular virus, capability to scan all kind of archives because the need to clean those files inside those archives, what more? Where we can find that beauty?

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    Firefighter, Dec 17, 2005
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    no AV has all that aspect yet :D beauty is very subjective
     
    cupez80, Dec 18, 2005
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    Future versions of AV heuristic engines may automatically scan the registry for entries related to the file name of the infected file and delete such malicious entries.

    Also, these future versions may offer an option to try and do a "generic/heuristical cleaning" of the file, after safely quaranting it.
     
    Firecat, Dec 20, 2005
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