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Avira Free Antivirus vs WannaCry ransomware by Juan Diaz
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<blockquote data-quote="Parsh" data-source="post: 629925" data-attributes="member: 58090"><p>2 suspicious patterns detected and quarantined (after the encrypted copies were generated).</p><p>Still, the RW was able to delete the original files left out during the creation of encrypted copies. That clearly indicates the slow detecting and/or inadequate blocking of the malicious process(es) by Avira free, be it cloud or local.</p><p></p><p>My only concern in the security setup was that the 'Use file extensions list' (that's mostly custom) was selected instead of 'Use Smart Extensions' (or All Files). I do not remember if the extensions have to be specified in this AV. I may be wrong, but probably using Smart Extensions list (like the default settings of many AVs) could have helped detect the malicious process, earlier, instead of just depending on the detection of the encrypted files in some monitored folders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parsh, post: 629925, member: 58090"] 2 suspicious patterns detected and quarantined (after the encrypted copies were generated). Still, the RW was able to delete the original files left out during the creation of encrypted copies. That clearly indicates the slow detecting and/or inadequate blocking of the malicious process(es) by Avira free, be it cloud or local. My only concern in the security setup was that the 'Use file extensions list' (that's mostly custom) was selected instead of 'Use Smart Extensions' (or All Files). I do not remember if the extensions have to be specified in this AV. I may be wrong, but probably using Smart Extensions list (like the default settings of many AVs) could have helped detect the malicious process, earlier, instead of just depending on the detection of the encrypted files in some monitored folders. [/QUOTE]
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