I thought you were going to go on to end the story by saying you'd fired up your own laptop and "popped his box"!

I posted a comment in a thread recently about AV picking up custom executables created as a payload, even following encoding multiple times with one or more encoders. As far as I understand it, the...

Hello everyone

I've been a watcher for quite a while and thought it about time that I dipped my toe in the water. I've been interested in IT for many years and IT security for about 5 years since...

@sinik - open a shell, run the command <ifconfig> and post the output.

I'd be inclined to try the following in sequence to see where the problem occurs:

ping 127.0.0.1
ping <MyIpAddress> (displayed by ifconfig)
ping <DefaultGateway>
ping 8.8.8.8
ping...

This is an amazing coincidence - I was playing around with encoding today and checked what was picked up by the AVG on my system. I was very disappointed to see that 4, 8, 12 or more iterations of...