[pchelpers] Re: [PC-ASK] antispyware and antivirus response times to new spyware

(update)

> I did not test
> BOClean because that would have required trying to infect my computer
> because that program "only" has real-time protection. In other words, it
> would have protected me from infection if it knew about or was able to
> use heuristics to detect AntiVirGear, but it cannot scan and therefore
> cannot detect a dormant installer package of malware only lying around.

> Interestingly, many antivirus programs also already detect this new 
> spyware, but AntiVir is not one of them this time:
> 
> http://virusscan.jotti.org/

Someone in 
http://forum.spywareterminator.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&m=21131 says 
"Both Avira and Boclean alert to this now" (on the 13th), so i'm 
guessing that person meant AntiVir Premium and that virusscan.jotti.org 
means AntiVir Classic. I'm trying to determine if AntiVIr Premium, which 
is a "real" antispyware (and antivirus) program, has already detected 
this as soon as CounterSpy.



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