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SOPHOS VS AVIRA Problems ... Which one do you use

I was going to mention this in the RC1 thread but it is not really firmware related. Before Sophos got into the UTM business, I had always thought of them as an AV company but mostly for Macs. I have noticed an alarming trend lately, Avira catches more viruses than Sophos, however sophos is the recommended engine in XG and UTM9 (due to PUA detection) and sandstorm functionality. 

I got a couple of random files from virustotal and tried them on UTM9 and sophos XG v16.0.5... In both cases sophos passes the virus. Sad part is that even windows defender catches these files as Trojan:Win32/Spursint.F!cl[:(]

Here are my settings 

File is passed

The same file is blocked if I switch to AVIRA for AV scan.

This is not UTM9 forum but  and  are regular mods that visit both forums, so I will post a few lines from UTM9 also for reference.

UTM9 blocking with Avira AV

2017:01:05-11:45:01 gatekeeper httpproxy[47665]: id="0056" severity="info" sys="SecureWeb" sub="http" name="web request blocked, virus detected" action="block" method="GET" srcip="192.168.0.3" dstip="46.105.105.167" user="" group="" ad_domain="" statuscode="403" cached="0" profile="REF_DefaultHTTPProfile (Default Web Filter Profile)" filteraction="REF_DefaultHTTPCFFAction (Custom Filtering)" size="2880" request="0x1a1c6400" url="img2.file-upload.cc:182/.../adobe.snr.patch.v2.0-painter.rar" referer="www.file-upload.cc/1yr4qa3kz04d" error="" authtime="0" dnstime="108103" cattime="8463582" avscantime="230576" fullreqtime="11534935" device="0" auth="0" ua="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36" exceptions="" category="170" reputation="unverified" categoryname="Personal Network Storage" country="France" content-type="application/octet-stream" engine="Avira" virus="TR/Rogue.xqioq"

UTM9 allowing the same file with Sophos AV

2017:01:05-11:50:24 gatekeeper httpproxy[48749]: id="0001" severity="info" sys="SecureWeb" sub="http" name="http access" action="pass" method="GET" srcip="192.168.0.3" dstip="46.105.105.167" user="" group="" ad_domain="" statuscode="200" cached="0" profile="REF_DefaultHTTPProfile (Default Web Filter Profile)" filteraction="REF_DefaultHTTPCFFAction (Custom Filtering)" size="685900" request="0xe1214c00" url="img2.file-upload.cc:182/.../adobe.snr.patch.v2.0-painter.rar" referer="www.file-upload.cc/1yr4qa3kz04d" error="" authtime="0" dnstime="68936" cattime="360" avscantime="987168" fullreqtime="3563482" device="0" auth="0" ua="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36" exceptions="" category="170" reputation="unverified" categoryname="Personal Network Storage" country="France" content-type="application/octet-stream" sandbox="1"

 

NOTES: XG was tested with www69.zippyshare.com/v/DyN937Yx/file.html and the referer for UTM9 is in the logs.



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  • I know this is an old thread but I too would like to know what the users around here do in regards to single/dual engine and which they select as default?  Right now I have single engine scanning on, and the engine set to Sophos, but I am starting to feel more and more that having dual engine scanning is worth a small tradeoff in speed. 


    So what do you all do?

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  • I know this is an old thread but I too would like to know what the users around here do in regards to single/dual engine and which they select as default?  Right now I have single engine scanning on, and the engine set to Sophos, but I am starting to feel more and more that having dual engine scanning is worth a small tradeoff in speed. 


    So what do you all do?

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