AVK, Escan and Extendia

[questions]

Is that all same manufacturer or these are all diferent products??

AVK
G-Data
Escan
Extendia antivirus


???

thanks

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different manufacturer, same engine, but modified

[Blackcat]

1. GDATA's AVK is at the present time, a double-engined AV consisting of a modified Kaspersky engine and one from BitDefender. GDATA are German based.

2. eXtendia's AV is an older AVK version, licensed from GDATA. It is again a double-engined AV, but this time it has the KAV and RAV engines. eXtendia/Boomerang Software are simply resellers of this AV and based in the States. There are no engine upgrades with this program.

3. eScan Antivirus has only a single, modified Kaspersky engine. MWTI who produce eScan are I believe an Indian company with offices in the States. No connection as such with GDATA nor eXtendia.

[jlo]

Hi Blackcat,

Also just to point out that Extendia also do just the single KAV based scanner as well as the KAV/RAV double scanner.

Nice sumary Blackcat.

Kind Regards

Jlo

[Blackcat]

Thanks jlo for reminding me of the single-engined eXtendia AVK ;)

Old age :D