How good is your anti-virus software?

J.B · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:24

Guess that just checks your scanner is active, Id be surpirsed if there is an AV that doesnt pick it up.

RJC · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:27

Kaspersky found it within seconds of saving

Proc · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:34

Avira picked it up, think we've covered most av software between us.

benneh · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:41

Kaspersky here, saved, opened several times, 2 mins gone, nothing.

And tbh I'm not too impressed with it overall, I used a Microsoft worm scanner/removal tool a few days ago and it found 6 worms, all missed by kaspersky. kasperky did find them as the microsoft software was finding them,/scanning but obviously that's fairly useless.

Edit, clocked it with a right click/scan file.

bazmehaim · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:44

Nod picked it up straight away for me

zero_01 · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:44

Yep Avast picked up within seconds

MrFunex · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:47

sophos found it... "EICAR-AV-Test"

Nymins · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:49

xb8browney said:
NOD32 picked it up in an instant

eddie_slovik · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:49

Anti Vir got it instantly

ThundyCat · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:53

OzyOly said:
I don't have any anti virus software.

Archangelus · 22 Jan 2009 at 20:53

AVG free got it without issue.

Reginald · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:03

Hahahah Avast cracks me up...

SIRENS!!!!!
"A virus has been detected"

Then text underneath saying....dont panic we have detected a virus.... hahah

Although, I scanned it with Avast and yes it complained. Then created another one with a different name and just left it for about 3 mins now and still nothing..

edit: Says "EICAR Test-NOT virus!!" on Avast

steve-h · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:10

awful!

dont use anti virus software... never needed.

MikeHunt79 · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:17

comodo picked it up when I tried to open it...

eXor · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:17

RJC said:
Kaspersky found it within seconds of saving

Avira didn't even give me a chance to save. I copied, pasted, CTRL + S ...... WARNING!!

V4NT0M · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:18

What antivirus?

Chimerical · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:19

orderoftheflame said:
Kaspersky got it straight off.

Cool, cheers for that. Means I don't have to test it.

V4NT0M · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:21

Skyfall said:
What antivirus?

Oh wait I have AVG on this PC, picked it up straight away.

Ranger07 · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:22

Nebzor said:
You saved it as .COM rather than a TXT file, right?

Ah right, works now

Klo · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:23

Bullguard didn't allow me to save it, got quarantined before it saved. Interestingly, the warning message said it wasn't actually a virus.