New p2p-virus....Win32.Polipos ?

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  1. izi

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    Does KAV detect this virus?
     
  2. Blackcat

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  3. IBK

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    still only DrWeb detecting it fully.
     
  4. IBK

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    the data below does not say if only some or if all are detected, I just show atm complesivly:
    AntiVir W32/Regenig
    Dr Web Win32.Polipos
    eSafe Trojan/Worm [100] (suspicious)
    F-Secure P2P-Worm.Win32.Polipos.a
    Fortinet W32/Polipos.V12
    Kaspersky P2P-Worm.Win32.Polipos.a
    McAfee (BETA) W32/Polipos (virus or variant)
    Panda (BETA) W32/Polipos.A
    Sophos W32/Polipos-A
    VBA32 Virus.Win32.Polipos.A
     
  5. Firefighter

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    I'm just acurious, but how many differerent occurrencies does this "Win32.Polipos" have nowadays, 500?

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
  6. IBK

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    o_O wrong question.
    it has to be detected in every infected file, which is 'unlimited number'.
     
  7. Firefighter

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    Thanks! I set that 500 only because there were about that many in VB tests.

    Best regards,
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  8. Miyagi

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    IBK,
    I and probably others really appreciate the effort you provide about any recent outbreak/new virus detection times from the various av's. As an end-user, the information you provide is very helpful to see how our antiviruses are faring. Also, I am glad to see other av experts like Severyanin (Dr.Web), Siarheika (VBA32), Inspector Closeau (former NOD32), Stefan Kurtzhals (Avira), and any others I missed, participate and give their input without flaming their competitors. Their professionalism and expertise are very well taken. Thank you all for providing a peaceful atmosphere. :thumb:
     
  9. RejZoR

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    Vlk from Alwil Software is also hanging around a lot and gives helpful advices and explanations to users :) Guys from ArcaBit used to hang around too but haven't seen them for some time:doubt:
     
  10. Brian N

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    Try now ;)
     
  11. Stefan Kurtzhals

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    The number of 500 in the VB test is waaaaaaaaay too low. Actually, they have much lower numbers for some of the viruses in the polymorphic set, even below 50 samples. Ironically, some the most difficult polymorphic viruses have the lowest number of samples while some of the easier ones have larger numbers.

    And they didn't replicate the samples anymore after they created the initial test set. If they would replicate like 10.000 for each virus (of course carefully check if the samples still work - which makes the replicating ALOT of work), the test results would be very different.

    Their scoring system for polymorphic viruses is flawed IMHO. The goal of testing polymorphic detection is to test how reliable the detection is. So if you miss even just 1 working (!) sample of a set of 10.000, the virus detection is flawed and should be rated 0%. VB instead gives 99.9% because they only count the raw numbers of detected samples. This harsh measurement makes sense because you can replicate 10.000 samples that are identical to the 1 that was not detected.

    I talked to IBK some while ago about this, I hope he changes his polymorphic test accordingly. :)
     
  12. IBK

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    sure ;)

    btw, update:
    AntiVir W32/Regenig
    BitDefender Win32.Polipos.A
    Dr Web Win32.Polipos
    eSafe Trojan/Worm [100] (suspicious)
    eTrust-INO Win32/Polipos!Worm
    F-Secure P2P-Worm.Win32.Polipos.a
    Fortinet W32/Polipos.V12
    Kaspersky P2P-Worm.Win32.Polipos.a
    McAfee (BETA) W32/Polipos (virus or variant)
    Panda (BETA) W32/Polipos.A
    Sophos W32/Polipos-A
    VBA32 Virus.Win32.Polipos.A


    http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_POLIPOS.A&VSect=P
     
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  13. RejZoR

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    What about VBA32 ? They seem to detect it too (don't know if all of them), have no clue about cleaning so far (probably not available).
     
  14. IBK

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    sorry, forgot to add it. now added.
     
  15. izi

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    Where is KAV?
     
  16. Inspector Clouseau

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    In moscow :D

    F-Secure's Detection name is the KAV detection.
     
  17. izi

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    Yea, and NOD32 is in Bratislava. Nod32 doesn't detect this virus. o_O
     
  18. RejZoR

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    Thats because it's in Bratislava :p
     
  19. izi

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    Hey Mike!

    Did U create cleaner (signature) for this virus?
     
  20. rothko

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    So is this just detection by most of these AVs, or is it cleaning too?
    Would be nice to see NOD32 in that list too, unless they are holding out for the detection AND cleaning package...
     
  21. Ned Slider

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    Not sure about others, but KAV offers to disinfect infected files but is then unable to do so, and resorts to deleting the infected files. I suspect it may be a while before we see disinfection/cleaning capabilities against this particular malware :(

    Ned
     
  22. pykko

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    well, at least detection would be nice to be seen....
     
  23. FRug

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    Since the virus trashes some files a 100% working repair routine will never exist. Also the repair routine of drweb takes about 45minutes to process approx. 800 infected files, and leaves quite a bunch of them in an infected state. I have not tested whether these were still working completely though. In any case, a repair routine that is not able to clean all infected working samples is useless, because you most likely end up repairing in an endless loop, with files getting reinfected all the time. Especially with a resident process-injection virus that hooks api calls such as polipos.

    IMHO there is no sane way to get around a complete reinstall for this particular nastie. You may be able to repair some exes and reuse them on your fresh install, however some of them, although repaired successfully, will still not work anymore (CRC self-checks etc).
     
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  25. rothko

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    lets open a book then - eset or symantec to add detection first?
    my money is on eset (literally - 2 licenses :) )

    ---edit: oops, i just read IBK's link again and see that symantec already added detection (thought it was just a write up of what the virus does)
     
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