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An Avast Free AV Ransomware Test
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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 551846" data-attributes="member: 7463"><p>The sample that got by was the typical RAA ransomware- so the only exe that it called up (other than wscript) is Wordpad for the false Document. For this test I purposely didn't use anything either true Zero-day or stuff I code as I wanted the concentration to be on common malware that AVAST should react to but does not. Avast fans are too caught up in impressive sounding terms like "Hardened Mode" and "CyberCapture" (I still LOVE that term!), when in reality sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.</p><p></p><p>But Avast isn't trash by any stretch. I think next week will be a repeat Avast test, but this time against something that has been showing up with great frequency lately- an executable that will try to turn our system into a malware distributing Zombie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 551846, member: 7463"] The sample that got by was the typical RAA ransomware- so the only exe that it called up (other than wscript) is Wordpad for the false Document. For this test I purposely didn't use anything either true Zero-day or stuff I code as I wanted the concentration to be on common malware that AVAST should react to but does not. Avast fans are too caught up in impressive sounding terms like "Hardened Mode" and "CyberCapture" (I still LOVE that term!), when in reality sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. But Avast isn't trash by any stretch. I think next week will be a repeat Avast test, but this time against something that has been showing up with great frequency lately- an executable that will try to turn our system into a malware distributing Zombie. [/QUOTE]
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