Re: AVG issues

de Mike Easter 01/30/2008 08:02

Htnakirs wrote:
> This is the conclusion based on my experience. Would like views from
> those who have faced similar situations.
>
> Briefly, AVG should not be used as the sole AV.

No AV or combination of AVs is going to be perfect. There will always
be the 'next' virus/worm just around the corner for which there is no
viral template yet.

No user should behave hirself in such a way that s/he is dependent upon
hir AV agent recognizing viruses for hir. S/he should not be configured
to be executing executables 'recklessly'.

> To elaborate:
> The virus in question was/is Virtob/virtut. For some reason it could
> successfully infect the AVG executable,

Only if you foolishly execute the agent. Here is a description of
Win32.Virtob.Gen at bitdefender http://snipr.com/1ym28

AV security is more than choosing an AV agent. Or 9 of them. Or 32 of
them.

> By the way, is there any work of fiction /or any real incident, of
> someone at the receiving end of the viral attack taking it
> *personally* and tracking down and eliminating the virus creator,
> singlehandedly. If not, I believe there is enough potential in the
> story line.

The normal situation is that there is a 'philosophy'. The philosophy is
that you the AV creator develop a strategy of 'inoculating' the
population of the internet with your virus dropper and then the foolish
susceptibles catch the condition which condition proceeds to distribute
itself and infect others.

Normally the AVer person hirself doesn't 'attack' the foolish
susceptible 'by hand'.

--
Mike Easter