Brian wrote:
> Does anyone, besides me, get nervous when antivirus or antispyware scans
> shows an all clean system? I mean with all of nasties out there you
> would think that one would get infected at some point. I run SAS
> freeware, Spyot, Nod32, MVPS Hosts file and only use firefox and
> thunderbird. Are there test files for syware (kinda like EICAR for av)?
You can download and try all of the Spycar tests.
http://www.spycar.org/Welcome%20to%20Spycar.html
The jury is still out on what all of this means. EICAR tells you that
your AV is enabled, and what to expect if it detects something. It
doesn't actually tell you that it is capable of detecting anything
besides the EICAR test file, nor if one AV solution is any better than
another. Spycar might mean no more than what EICAR means.
BTW, I never find anything on my WinXP box (a FP from time to time),
and I collect malware scanners. I think that it just means that I have
boring internet habits.
Ron
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