Thanks Magna. Your opinion counts far more than mine ever could.
My comments were in the way of asking MCShield effectiveness if it is used side-by-side with Avast on the cloud.
We do support layered defense, just that, from time to time, we must rethink or move on from a particular layer due to technology changes.
I'm using MCS since years on all of my machines. Some days ago, after I've put one of my USB sticks into a slot of one of my W8 machines, MCS scanned that stick and detected s.th. malicious and deleted it.
After i had a look at the log (see screenshot [excuse for German]), I didn't know nothing for I couldn't find a name of the data, which was deleted.
As I didn't get any answer in the German board, Asyn lead me to this thread and I hope, there comes an answer, which includes reason and name of the deleted data.
Iv been using MC Shield for a year now ..but my friends been on my case because they say its been abandoned though i love it soo much ..
MCShield is not a antivirus, it is a special tool that only target those malwaretypes that try to jump disk when you plug in a USB storage device.
It does this by behaviour and dont need signatures, there is a limited amount of tricks they can use to jump and all are known.
I am still happy with VoodooShield on my comp.
and that I now willingly had to run or block.
Works like a sort of second op when installing things..
Excuse my not mentioning, that I was really sure, that the USB stick was empty. But now I feel insecure and want to know, what MCS was working on.
MCS scanned that stick and detected s.th. malicious and deleted it.
I dont see that name in the log/screenshot you posted ?
1. I dont see that name in the log/screenshot you posted ?
1: I didn't see any either and that made me nervous.
But it means nothing to me.
4: Detected and deleted right away. 1 malicious file!
3: the MD5 is a unique identifier for the file. Even if the name was changed but nothing else, the MD5 would be the same.
It may be possible to do a search on virustotal for that MD5 to see if it has been scanned before and what the results were. I know it is possible to do a search on VT for a files SHA-256 unique identifier, I have done that before, but don't know about MD5 unique identifier.
I have done that before, but don't know about MD5 unique identifier.
Thanks for your declarations. I never used VT before.
Thanks, too, for your further declarations and the VT link. Am I right, that it doesn't matter, with which machine I start the VT scan?