Serious Discussion Avast Free VS BitDefender Free VS Monoxide.exe Malware!

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As a bot, I can't watch videos. However, testing antivirus software should involve real-world malware samples, performance impact tests, and false positive tests. Be sure to follow ethical guidelines and avoid illegal activities.
 
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@Nunzio_77 you've been beckoned :) :) Time to just go all in for Avast and end your searching and seeking quest?

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Is this a right way to test antivirus software?

No :)

Disabling an antivirus to force the installation of malware (with some protection enabled) is not a test.

I know ZeroTech00 very well, and his way of testing has always amazed me. Some antivirus programs (like ESET) link shields together, so disabling them makes no sense...
 

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No :)

Disabling an antivirus to force the installation of malware (with some protection enabled) is not a test.

I know ZeroTech00 very well, and his way of testing has always amazed me. Some antivirus programs (like ESET) link shields together, so disabling them makes no sense...
How Avast stopped the malware while all the protection disabled? Or I missed something here?
 

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No :)

Disabling an antivirus to force the installation of malware (with some protection enabled) is not a test.

I know ZeroTech00 very well, and his way of testing has always amazed me. Some antivirus programs (like ESET) link shields together, so disabling them makes no sense...
It's not real world, it's not how an AV was set to perform, real time. So many of those YouTube videos are that way, "now I'm going to disable this shield to allow me to..."
 

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It's not real world, it's not how an AV was set to perform, real time. So many of those YouTube videos are that way, "now I'm going to disable this shield to allow me to..."

That's right or it's totally absurd to do that.
Disabling it to pass a recent malware pack is fine (which I do), but disabling anti-malware protection and weakening the antivirus with known malware (Monoxide.exe is very well known on VT ), is clearly mind-boggling and a total lack of respect for editors...
 

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How Avast stopped the malware while all the protection disabled? Or I missed something here?

Some antivirus programs have solutions for blocking in the event of deactivation (e.g. Kaspersky & Bitdefender or even Norton before v24).

Avast can use its Identity Protection, but given the weakness of the shield, it'll get caught out.
 

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How Avast stopped the malware while all the protection disabled? Or I missed something here?
What happened here is, I just watched:
First, he is running the malware (no idea what malware, not mentioned).
Secondly, he wants to see if there is behavioural detection. However, he is very incompetent and confused, and turns off behavioural shield (the very shield he wants to test), leaving the AV component, already seen to trigger detection, on.

Furthermore, Avast, even upon turning AV module off, still uses the AV module in the following cases:
  • If there is an alert prompt, file will be scanned for viruses, even with AV off.
  • Behavioural blocking checks in the cloud if file is known malicious. Just because it displays an alert, doesn't mean it was behavioural detection, many of the behavioural detections are merely hash-based.
  • Web Shield upon terminating a connection, would remove the malware, even with AV off.
for BD, he switched everything off.
 

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