Dr.WEB

DoZator wrote on 2025-06-09, 20:14:

Dr.WEB

What even is that......

Well, I guess I could test it with the few Sality and other samples I got. Sad I lost my WMAwimad sample tho 🙁

EDIT: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/dr-we … windows.432122/

Don't think it's so good after all

https://www.360totalsecurity.com/en/download- … ivirus/#windows
Fully compatible with Windows XP sp3

Aren't we pretty much protected by obsolescence? Windows XP is still my daily personal OS and I haven't had a malware infection in probably eight years. I haven't had an actual virus virus in double that.

motley6 wrote on 2025-08-12, 19:17:

Aren't we pretty much protected by obsolescence? Windows XP is still my daily personal OS and I haven't had a malware infection in probably eight years. I haven't had an actual virus virus in double that.

New malware specifically targeting Windows XP or Vista in 2025 are rare. This is true because the vast majority of users operate with more recent versions of Windows. Legacy systems remain at risk, however, from old and repurposed malware.

My $0.02

F. Fota

fotafm wrote on 2025-09-06, 15:13:

New malware specifically targeting Windows XP or Vista in 2025 are rare. This is true because the vast majority of users operate […]
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motley6 wrote on 2025-08-12, 19:17:

Aren't we pretty much protected by obsolescence? Windows XP is still my daily personal OS and I haven't had a malware infection in probably eight years. I haven't had an actual virus virus in double that.

New malware specifically targeting Windows XP or Vista in 2025 are rare. This is true because the vast majority of users operate with more recent versions of Windows. Legacy systems remain at risk, however, from old and repurposed malware.

My $0.02

F. Fota

Hi! Indeed.

I think that this kind of malware is at least about as rare as a flu that targets people with brown hair or black hair.

Just my two cents.

Rwolf wrote on 2025-02-24, 21:24:

One thing that can be misleading is to use too modern antivirus definitions on old suspect software; as older malware that are not relevant on new systems can be pruned from the malware databases, but still cause trouble on retro-systems.

I encountered this once when looking through some old CD:s from a magazine that I knew had malware on it, and that was flagged at the time of release, but did not raise any alerts on a newer updated antivirus.

(The magazine was a local -90:s PC Gamer magazine CD, that had malware from the publishers own testing PC included - this was originally identified by a Norton Antivirus back in the day, but not flagged by current antivirus sw, as it was obsolete malware, non-functional on modern systems)

Would you care to share only the issue numbers of PC Gamer which you know for certain contained such malware? Also, are there any citations to this being public information at the time?

@janskjaer:

It was the July 1998 issue #20 of Swedish PC Gamer; it had 2 CD:s included, with totally 3 virus copies. (Marburg-A type, my Norton Antivirus found it immediately).

One infection was found in a shareware called 3D-Jongg (by Moraff I think), and another in a MS DirectX5 file (ddhelp.exe), included with a KKND2 demo that the PC Gamer had distributed unpacked, not as the developers original zip file. A third instance was in a Quake2 v3.14->v3.15 patch file (Q2-315-X86.exe).

There was some apologies from the magazine in the following issues as I recall, probably not available online now, as the magazine has closed down, as most of the paper magazines of the day.

This virus was also spread by the game developer/publisher EA/MGM in August of the same year according to the F-secure virus description:
https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/marburg.shtml
https://www.mobygames.com/game/42282/wargames/trivia/

In 2015 I rechecked these files as I was looking into the KKND2 demo version content, and then my Avast antivirus did not catch it, but I had made a note on the CD:s covers as a warning back in 1998.