Command Antivirus

[Honyak]

I did not find much doing a search so I am seeking comments and experience concerning Command Antivirus.

[bigc73542]

did you try here (http://www.authentium.com/) I have used command in the past and it runs light on the system and has a good detection rate

[Honyak]

Thanks BigC, I did see the website, but I was looking in Wilders for users comments. I was going to trial it, but I notice the trial does not include updates.

Regards

[bigc73542]

The reason i quit useing command was that it got to be more trouble trying to get it updated than it was worth. >:(

[Technodrome]

In short:

Pros: Very light, simple, stable, price, very good detection rate and solid heuristics.

Cons: Better packer support is desired…


tECHNODROME

[Honyak]

Yes, I googled it and there were some of the same issues reported by users, but they were from 2003 and early 2004. Wonder if anything has changed?

[Technodrome]

If it helps, I've never experienced any problems with Command AV. Its been very stable and flawless for me.



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[Honyak]

Thank you Technodrome.
How long have you used it?

Regards

[Technodrome]

I've been using it for a very long time. Since 1999 (I think). I had my first contact with CSAV when I was in college. I liked it so I bought it.


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[Honyak]

I noticed when googling it a lot of universities used it for their student network.
Sounds good, I may trial it after all. I have trialed all the big guns and now am working on the lesser known so to speak. But Command sounds like a decent package.

Thanks again.

[Technodrome]

Take a look at this great post by Black Cat. ;)
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=18801

Happy trialing!



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[Honyak]

Thanks again, a very informative read, when I did a search for command antivirus I must have missed this somehow. Glad you pointed me in the right direction.

Regards

[mercurie]

{QUOTE-> If it helps, I've never experienced any problems with Command AV. Its been very stable and flawless for me.



tECHNODROME <-QUOTE}Same here not as long as you not quite a year. Difficult for me to set up but once I set it up it worked great. I plan to renew it on my Emachine for at least another year. ;)

Reading the link I would add one thing it updates at least three or four times a week now a days. Sometimes almost every day of the week. Weekends the least. ;)

[Honyak]

{QUOTE-> Same here not as long as you not quite a year. Difficult for me to set up but once I set it up it worked great. I plan to renew it on my Emachine for at least another year. ;)

Reading the link I would add one thing it updates at least three or four times a week now a days. Sometimes almost every day of the week. Weekends the least. ;) <-QUOTE}

What was difficult to set up?

Regards

[mercurie]

After the download the unpacking it and as BigC stated getting it to update. You have to set up the update and make choices. (See post 8 in the Black Cat link, click the sites tab, right there you need to make some choices to set it up, I am on my Compaq and not my Emachine or I could better explain).Put in your password. I had to read the manual. Also at the time Bellgamin got it too and he needed to know where to look for the update status which is in the Help>About. I think the fact that it is so few options makes it a little difficult you have to bore into it a little not just four or five "radio buttons" like most. I should tell you I have mine to alert me to update and then I go do it manually. It puts a little gift box in the icon tray. You click on it and then load up the definition update.

Hope this helps. Check out their manual I think it has some pictures and is not badly written like some. ;)

[Honyak]

Thanks once again, I am dl'ing manual now.

[Blackcat]

Two points to watch out for with CSAV;

In the past

1. The trial version could not be updated, but you could obtain a free "temporary" username/password to allow this.

2. The $19.95 purchase price from the main Authentium site did not include support. You then had to pay extra for this.

I do not know whether these restrictions still apply.

A very underrated AV; stable, relatively small memory footprint and IME, has virtually no effect on system performance. Lightning fast on-demand scanner and a large signature database.

[waters]

Hi.
Can f protect for dos free,be used with win xp.
thanks

[likuidkewl]

I tested out command AV last week I think and I found it to be a very good AV, as stated before with little resource usage and a fast scanner. The ONLY thing that bothered me was the reporting options, for some reason I could only get it to keep a log file of 82kb or so and that was a little annoying when running it against some samples, so I had to break the OD testing down to each seperate folder in order to get a good log file from it. Other than that it was nice. If interested look in my sig.

[Honyak]

Looks like e-mail support is available at no charge, but phone support is pricey.

I did already check your link likuidkewl, it is the reason I started looking more into it.

Regards

[Cap'n Kirk]

I recently purchased Command and have been using it for about a month. It is very stable but is not very "configurable". I also found that on my system at least, CAV uses twice as much ram as the latest F-Prot AV which I had trialed just prior to getting CAV. F-Prot used on avg 10-12mb of ram versus 22-25mb for CAV. Other than that, CAV has not caused any slow downs at all.