Configure Ants 2.0 English?

[pompeyfan]

Anybody know what options to choose for Ants, for a newcomer to Trojan Scanners?

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cenz

[Daizy]

Hi pompeyfan:
I've never heard of it. But did find this (http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.anset.worm.html). Is this what you were looking for?

If it is.....I hope you haven't infact ran it?

Daizy

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Hope this helps.



[This message has been edited by Daizy (edited 03-02-2002).]

[jerryctx]

I've left everything set to the initial values. If you have questions about specific settings I'll try to help.

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Jerry CTX
Computer (In)Security (http://www.ceepeeu.com)
Fight UCITA (http://www.4cite.org)

[pompeyfan]

Thanks Daizy, no I haven't ran that fortunately.
Jerry, default leaves heuristics set to low, and scan for unusual signatures unticked, would I only play around with these settings if I strongly suspected that I had a trojan, if not under what circumstances would they be used?

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cenz

[jerryctx]

Both of those settings tend to give false positives when set to high. If you suspect you are infected you could try setting them up for a scan but confirm any "trojans" are real with another anti-trojan.

BTW - For those of you who are using the English translation for the Ants' instructions on my web site, there is now an English version of Ants. There's a link to a site with the English download in the Trojan section of the Virus page on my site. You'll never find it on the German home page.

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Jerry CTX
Computer (In)Security (http://www.ceepeeu.com)
Fight UCITA (http://www.4cite.org)

[This message has been edited by jerryctx (edited 03-03-2002).]

[pompeyfan]

Thanks Jerry, I dont suspect trojan infection at this stage, so I will leave the setttings to default. I did try putting the settings to high just for fun, and it gave me a result of 12 suspected files, some of them really quite laughable.
Again, thanks for your advice.

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cenz