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<blockquote data-quote="Trident" data-source="post: 1036761" data-attributes="member: 99014">By default many of them don&#039;t scan in archives (not to say all as there are over 200 antivirus, haven&#039;t tried all). Many have additional settings (Bitdefender, Eset, Norton, Trend Micro and others) that activates scanning in archives. <a href="https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/13450/" target="_blank">Bitdefender warns that this reduces performance and is not needed as archives will be scanned on as-used basis</a>. Some products have no setting to enable archive scanning (McAfee, ZoneAlarm, potentially F-Secure). These products rely on the assumption that once in use, all archive content will be scanned. Behavioural blocking and other components should stop the attacks. They are, the 2 products use the same codebase.No, there are many people that go around telling stories how ineffective it is. I&#039;ve seen these stories here as well. Told by people who can&#039;t establish whether a pdf document contains malware or not. They know nothing about malware but they believe they can measure the effectiveness of an antivirus product.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trident, post: 1036761, member: 99014"] By default many of them don't scan in archives (not to say all as there are over 200 antivirus, haven't tried all). Many have additional settings (Bitdefender, Eset, Norton, Trend Micro and others) that activates scanning in archives. [URL='https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/13450/']Bitdefender warns that this reduces performance and is not needed as archives will be scanned on as-used basis[/URL]. Some products have no setting to enable archive scanning (McAfee, ZoneAlarm, potentially F-Secure). These products rely on the assumption that once in use, all archive content will be scanned. Behavioural blocking and other components should stop the attacks. They are, the 2 products use the same codebase. No, there are many people that go around telling stories how ineffective it is. I've seen these stories here as well. Told by people who can't establish whether a pdf document contains malware or not. They know nothing about malware but they believe they can measure the effectiveness of an antivirus product. [/QUOTE]

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