halcyon
December 13th, 2006, 06:35 AM
Which brands offer multi-detection engine AntiVirus suites? And which suites do they offer?
I know of (including my personal opinions after the engines):
G-Data AVK 2006
1. Bitdefender engine
2. Kaspersky (aka AVP) engine
+ great combination of two engines. My back up on-demand scanner (for NOD32)
D-Data AVK 2007
1. Avast engine
2. Kaspersky engine
- I don't know why they changed Bitdefender to Avast? Pricing. It certainly doesn't improve the detection (as av-comparatives has shown). EDIT: I just read the av-test roundup and AVK 2007 did indeed do better than AVK2006. Well, the difference is not that big, but I'm still somewhat puzzled.
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2007
1. Kaspersky engine
2. F-secure's own internal engine (Orion
3. Lavasoft's Ad-Aware engine (Draco)
4. F-secure's own internal engine (Libra)
- Kaspersky + their own engines has good coverage (except perhaps for all the non-adware malware variants). I wish they'd dump Lavasoft and include another good anti-malware like AntiVir (currently). I'm just not sure they slow-as-hell software configuration could stand an addition of another engine though :)
TrustPort Antivirus Workstation 2
1. BitDefender engine
2. Norman engine
- Haven't tried. Not the best combo according to tests, but not bad.
Secure Computing WebWasher
1. internal own engine
2. AntiVir engine
- Seems to have done well in one test and AntiVir currently has good engine/detection. This is a hw box only solution aimed at enterprise, which for me is a minus (price, my needs).
MS (ex-Sybari) Antigen
1. can be configured with various engines, incl. ahnlab, cairis, cavet, command, kaspersky, nai, norman, sophos, spamcure, sybari, vbuster
- Another enterprise server side product, which I have not tried and which is not suitable for my personal needs (could be a great tool for enterprise though, I have no idea)
Are there others, esp. ones that are meant as desktop installations?
Personally I'm getting really weary of the growing of running/updating/keeping up-to-date with multiple security applications. It just gets to be too much.
That's why I'm personally considering multi-engine AV-suites (to cover the AV defense part of security portfolio) these days.
I'll try another "pruning down" approach with other parts of the security setup also, but that's a subject for another thread.
I know of (including my personal opinions after the engines):
G-Data AVK 2006
1. Bitdefender engine
2. Kaspersky (aka AVP) engine
+ great combination of two engines. My back up on-demand scanner (for NOD32)
D-Data AVK 2007
1. Avast engine
2. Kaspersky engine
- I don't know why they changed Bitdefender to Avast? Pricing. It certainly doesn't improve the detection (as av-comparatives has shown). EDIT: I just read the av-test roundup and AVK 2007 did indeed do better than AVK2006. Well, the difference is not that big, but I'm still somewhat puzzled.
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2007
1. Kaspersky engine
2. F-secure's own internal engine (Orion
3. Lavasoft's Ad-Aware engine (Draco)
4. F-secure's own internal engine (Libra)
- Kaspersky + their own engines has good coverage (except perhaps for all the non-adware malware variants). I wish they'd dump Lavasoft and include another good anti-malware like AntiVir (currently). I'm just not sure they slow-as-hell software configuration could stand an addition of another engine though :)
TrustPort Antivirus Workstation 2
1. BitDefender engine
2. Norman engine
- Haven't tried. Not the best combo according to tests, but not bad.
Secure Computing WebWasher
1. internal own engine
2. AntiVir engine
- Seems to have done well in one test and AntiVir currently has good engine/detection. This is a hw box only solution aimed at enterprise, which for me is a minus (price, my needs).
MS (ex-Sybari) Antigen
1. can be configured with various engines, incl. ahnlab, cairis, cavet, command, kaspersky, nai, norman, sophos, spamcure, sybari, vbuster
- Another enterprise server side product, which I have not tried and which is not suitable for my personal needs (could be a great tool for enterprise though, I have no idea)
Are there others, esp. ones that are meant as desktop installations?
Personally I'm getting really weary of the growing of running/updating/keeping up-to-date with multiple security applications. It just gets to be too much.
That's why I'm personally considering multi-engine AV-suites (to cover the AV defense part of security portfolio) these days.
I'll try another "pruning down" approach with other parts of the security setup also, but that's a subject for another thread.