bellgamin
January 26th, 2007, 02:44 AM
I just ran across Moon Secure AV (MSAV) at Source Forge. It's free - a 10.3MB download from HERE (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=169560). The file to get is MsavSetup.exe.
Here is the app's description from MSAV's website...
-{ Quote: "Moon Secure Antivirus aims to be the best Free Antivirus for Windows under GPL license. It offers multiple scan engines, Net shield, Firewall, On access, on Exec scanner and rootkits preventions plus features from Commercial Antivirus applications." }-On 1/25/07 MSAV was at ver 1.0 build 434 dated 1/19/07, with engine dated 1/23/07, & database dated 1/25/07 including 87351 worms & viruses.
It installed without a re-boot. Ergo, it's easy to try it out using DeepFreeze or ShadowSurfer.
It manifests 2 running processes, listed below. I show memory usage for each process, using Process Explorer terminology, as Physical Memory Working Set/Private Bytes/Virtual Size***...
moontray.exe 6524K/2080K/37160K
msavcore.exe 24336K/21468k/73024K
CPU cycled between 0 & 1.52% -- mostly the latter.
MSAV includes a real-time monitor (RTM), plus an on-demand scanner for Drives, & a right click scan for individual files & folders.
There is no GUI as such so I can't give you a screenshot. You can get a pop-up by right clicking the icon in the system tray whereby you can initiate updates, various scans, enable/disable RTM, & shut-down MSAV. The updater responded very fast, & did a speedy download of unspecified size. Based on what the updater displayed, the signature database appears to be from ClamAV.
I'm still recovering from a hospital stay, plus my wife was recently hospitalized for a heart attack, so my keyboard time is too limited for me to test this program. I'm not smart enough to do so, anyhow. Maybe someone else will test it. MSAV is obviously a rather new AV, in early development stages, so anyone who chooses to review/test it might cut the sweet *moon-doggie* a bit of slack. ...Or not.
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*** NOTE: As I understand it Process Explorer's "Virtual Size" is total virtual memory (both in RAM, and swapped out to disk). Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
Here is the app's description from MSAV's website...
-{ Quote: "Moon Secure Antivirus aims to be the best Free Antivirus for Windows under GPL license. It offers multiple scan engines, Net shield, Firewall, On access, on Exec scanner and rootkits preventions plus features from Commercial Antivirus applications." }-On 1/25/07 MSAV was at ver 1.0 build 434 dated 1/19/07, with engine dated 1/23/07, & database dated 1/25/07 including 87351 worms & viruses.
It installed without a re-boot. Ergo, it's easy to try it out using DeepFreeze or ShadowSurfer.
It manifests 2 running processes, listed below. I show memory usage for each process, using Process Explorer terminology, as Physical Memory Working Set/Private Bytes/Virtual Size***...
moontray.exe 6524K/2080K/37160K
msavcore.exe 24336K/21468k/73024K
CPU cycled between 0 & 1.52% -- mostly the latter.
MSAV includes a real-time monitor (RTM), plus an on-demand scanner for Drives, & a right click scan for individual files & folders.
There is no GUI as such so I can't give you a screenshot. You can get a pop-up by right clicking the icon in the system tray whereby you can initiate updates, various scans, enable/disable RTM, & shut-down MSAV. The updater responded very fast, & did a speedy download of unspecified size. Based on what the updater displayed, the signature database appears to be from ClamAV.
I'm still recovering from a hospital stay, plus my wife was recently hospitalized for a heart attack, so my keyboard time is too limited for me to test this program. I'm not smart enough to do so, anyhow. Maybe someone else will test it. MSAV is obviously a rather new AV, in early development stages, so anyone who chooses to review/test it might cut the sweet *moon-doggie* a bit of slack. ...Or not.
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*** NOTE: As I understand it Process Explorer's "Virtual Size" is total virtual memory (both in RAM, and swapped out to disk). Someone please correct me if I am wrong.