why does mcafee miss trojons so much.

[ravenorus]

why when i scan for viruses mcafee misses the trojons i need to run two different anti virus programs so i can make sure i dont have a trojons on my pc

[hot_ice]

I suggest Trend Micro's PC-Cillin. I put it on my PC just to try something different (I had Norton previously) and straight away it found a virus. Give it a go, maybe it'll do the job for ya - it does it for me.

http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/

Greg

[George_ge]

is your mcafee up to date???

[tyger_claw]

Here's a little dinger....

I had transfered some files to a buddies computer and his PC-Cillin picked up a virus on one of the files.... it was a trogan.... then I scanned my files, and it found two....

It just depends on what and how to date things are.... as far as I can tell

[blackmask]

Trend micro and mcafee both r not so efficient in cleaning trojans.Try Norton....
It will help you...

[uraloony]

I have used Mcafee for years, and let me tell you, I have NEVER been infected by anything really bad. It has detected trojans and viruses very well!

[toneill]

"I have used Mcafee for years, and let me tell you, I have NEVER been infected by anything really bad. It has detected trojans and viruses very well!"

Just because you've never been "infected" by any really bad virus does not mean that you don't have any trojan viruses still hiding on your system. It's possible that McAfee has missed trojan viruses in one or more executable file on your hard drive. As long as you never run the executbles you will never even realize that the trojan viruses are hiding in files on your hard drive.

I too have never been infected by anything really bad, and I rarely run antivirus software. Instead I pratice safe computing (not opening unknown email, etc.) My point is that just because you haven't been infected doesn't mean that your antivirus software is doing a thorough job.

[DeadCr0w]

Keep it up to date and maybe enabling heuristic scanning might help you as well!

[KorpDeath]

Just get a trojan scanner. Virus scanners detect virii well, trojan scanners like tauscan from www.agnitum.com detect trojans really well.

As far as Norton being superior, you've got some bad days coming. Don't put your faith in Norton.

[sir henry]

My local comp shop persuaded me to buy 'Indefense' anti-virus, a couple of years ago. I've been very happy with it, except for a small niggle, when I use 'Eraser' I have to unload Indefense' other it won't complete. Indefense tells me there is a virus, weird, using another free anti virus every so often, [cross fingers] I haven't had a virus.
I suppose Sods Law will take over And I'll be asking advise soon.
cheers,

sir henry.

[gstudios]

I too have never been infected by anything really bad, and I rarely run antivirus software. Instead I pratice safe computing (not opening unknown email, etc.) My point is that just because you haven't been infected doesn't mean that your antivirus software is doing a thorough job.

I heartily agree with you on the safe computing part, toneill.

As for scanning for trojans, try 'The Scanner' from MooSoft (http://www.moosoft.com)

[tyger_claw]

The last time I tried Norton, my computer showed me 3, count it, 1..2..3! blue screens of death!

I always got a kick out of this....

Norton Crashguard has conflicted with.... Norton Crashguard! :duh:

Now that's protection!

[Noia]

Inoculate IT is the best, it's fast, simple and Effective, I'v tested it, and it's better than Norton And McAfee. and It doesn't have any of those anoying Vid's.
Unfortunatly, they are dis-continuing it, coz It didn't catch on :(
Look into it though...it's very effective.. :)
- Noia
:D

[PhirePhreak]

Hmm... does the fact that McAfee is packaged with Windows mean anything? Common sense maybe?

[Maverick811]

Well, I'd say that first you needed to make sure that your DAT files and scan engine is up to date. McAfee releases new DAT files on a weekly basis pretty much, and also when a new virus is in the wild. I believe the current scan engine is 4.1.60 and the latest DAT file is 4196. Set your software to autoupdate from McAfee's website, it's much easier. Then make sure that your scan settings are correct, such as scanning incoming and outgoing files, etc.

As someone mentioned earlier, I've used McAfee for a good while and I've never been infected with anything. I know a lot of users here stand by other software packages, and I'm by no means stating that McAfee is the best, but it seems to do okay for my needs.

[[WebCarnage]]

Originally posted by Noia
Inoculate IT is the best, it's fast, simple and Effective, I'v tested it, and it's better than Norton And McAfee. and It doesn't have any of those anoying Vid's.


Same here...I used McAfee before...Inoculate is WAY more simple and effective. It's about the same, if not better than MCafee. I'm not to sure on them discontinuing though.

[mccraghan]

Originally posted here (http://www.AntiOnline.com/showthread.php?threadid=#post) by ravenorus
why when i scan for viruses mcafee misses the trojons i need to run two different anti virus programs so i can make sure i dont have a trojons on my pc

I knew I had a ghost of some sort, as AOL said over a 1000 emails were sent out. I scan with
McAfee and it didn't find them, and their scan ran over 7 hrs.
So I buy the Antiy Ghostbusters,IT found 4 infected files in less then an hour.

[backdoor_2002]

Well, all the antivirus programs miss some viruses that the others don´t
Also you may want to check your DAT version and your engine version.

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tomorrow is today

[Ryan Nyquist]

mcafee probably misses the trojans because the files that are being found on your other virus scanners are probably suspicious files. this does not mean that they are infected and it does not mean that they are not. mcafee will only find infected files rather than suspicious. you should download a trojan scanner anyway. this same thing happened to me with F-Prot 3.11. F-Prot 3.11's on demand scanner detected 8 suspicious files and mcafee only found one that was infected with the NetBus Pro trojan. either that or it is that you don't have your virus DATS up to date. use instant updater to find updates and download an anti-trojan program like Tauscan, or The Cleaner.