Exactly what are the calling malware? If no AV system is 100% effective, then how can they be 100% sure of these numbers?
:-----Original Message----- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington (S) :Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:03 AM :To: The Hardware List :Subject: RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation : :At 10:02 PM 10/02/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: :>unknown malware you would be astonished. And don't think I am just :>checking malware against one or two AV companies. Go to :>www.virustotal.com and see all the vendors. I collect malware that is :>not recognized by any of all those vendors and I have to reverse :>engineer it just to know that it does. : :Is VirusTotal the company you work for? What does this company :do? Can I use your site to see if my AV is keeping up with new threats? : :I'm looking at the charts, but I don't understand them. : :http://www.virustotal.com/xhtml/graficas/grafica4_en.html : :In this one, it seems to suggest that in the last seven days, 16,986 :viruses were missed by at least one AV and only 344 were caught by :all of them. That number doesn't seem useful to me - I'd be :interested in seeing how many were missed by all the AVs. : :T
