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Just posted this on the story at your link;

About the "80% NEW Malware" miss rate; I posted this.

"....No, those reading and commenting are wrong
Posted by: Anonymous
Posted on: 19/12/06
Story: Eighty percent of new malware defeats antivirus

He never mentioned viruses....He mentioned 80% of "NEW MALWARE"...Usually Trojans, spyware, dialers, root kits, and other drive by downloaded crap and the like. Like unwanted toolbars and browser helper objects.

He is about right according to what I find using other Spyware Removers and Anti-Spyware tools.

I work on machines that have either Norton, MCAfee, AVG, and about 4-5 other AV products that show the machines clean upon run of the AV product as far as known viruses, but the machines are slow as molasses...But then run an online scan at Bit Defender.com (usually finds 5-10 infected files w/ known viruses on most machines and deletes those files) Run the following scumware removers; Adaware SE Personal, Bazooka Spyware Scanner, Spybot S&D 1.4, Install Spyware Blaster.exe, Use CCleaner.exe (clean, repair issues, and then clean up that Start Up folder), Run Rootkit revealer, and install BHO Demon (yeah, it is currently out of date, but it will also show all the Browser Helper Objects currently installed tho), Run HijackThis.exe, CWShredder to get rid of Cool WebSearch, then install BugOff.exe and turn all to DISABLED (NOTE: When using BUGOFF, read the effects for each category please!). Then there are a few other tools I use to get rid of very nasty Malware that may have been installed, but I can usually find the VERY WELL HIDDEN removal tools via simple research when found w/ 1 of the above SCUMWARE removers even if they can't remove it but point out it is installed. Bazooka usually finds some of the worst to remove junk & malware that the other do not, but Kephyr.com (God Bless His Soul), has manual removal instructions that the tool takes you to the web page of...And he'll help you if the removal instructions don't do the job. Don't forget to send him any files you might find...It helps him stay abreast of the advances, and therefore he helps us back by including the updated solutions.....
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ANTI VIRUS is just that...Anti Virus...It isn't Anti-Malware, Anti-Spyware, a rootkit revealer or Anti-Trojan in many cases.
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There still isn't enough info in this story here to tell me how to protect my or my customer's computers though (most of which run SYMANTEC AV of course!)

But what is strange about that...Very few of these stories only tell half a glass story. of course now I know which direction to research and what questions to ask tech help at Symantec...Otherwise I would not know anything was even up...Symantec sure isn't going to send me a mail telling me their product has a hole!

TY ZDNET!

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