Identification of generically detected malware (Global Threat Intelligence detections)
Technical Articles ID:
KB65525
Last Modified: 6/9/2020
Last Modified: 6/9/2020
Identification of generically detected malware (Global Threat Intelligence detections)
Technical Articles ID:
KB65525
Last Modified: 6/9/2020 Environment
McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.x SummaryThis article provides information about GTI functionality for listing specific detected malware names.
To provide increased proactive detection, McAfee Labs has chosen to detect some malware generically. New malware can be detected earlier in the wild, and some detection names are generalized rather than providing a specific name for the infection. Examples:
Because the name assigned to these detections is generic, it can be hard to restore specific GTI detections from quarantine and differentiate between specific threats in reports. So, McAfee Labs has recently added a unique identifier to the end of GTI identifications. When GTI identifies malware, a unique identifier is shown.
Example:
Adding the unique tagging for detections enables you to do the following:
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