On demand scanner for use with NOD32?

[gery]

Just add SAS or MBAM and that is all you need

[Biscuit]

Originally Posted by dnewhous

NOD32 has the best real time protection you can get according to the ICSA ratings (the only personal use softare certified for anti-spyware) but the on demand scanner is not ICSA certified. There is very little software for personal use that is ICSA certified, so they are joining a large club. Is there an antivirus software that I can install and use strictly for schedule and on demand scanning that won't conflict with NOD32 and that is ICSA certified on Windows XP Professional?
Norton Antivirus is certified. McAfee VirusScan Plus is not certified on XP (and it comes with an uncertified firewall to boot).

If ICSA have certified Norton, I would suggest that you reconsider your reliance on ICSA. Most computers that I have to clean are "protected" by Norton. I would recommend that you keep Nod32 (version 3.x) & add either MBAM (paid version) or wait a month or so for Prevx3.

[computer geek]

Originally Posted by C.S.J

what update, cureit does not update.

licence, what licence?

No idea, it wouldn't let me update, everytime i clicked on it firefox came up with a million tabs asking if I would like to buy a tennis racket. :S

licence, yes weird I know, I opened it and it sayed would i like to run a quick scan i clicked yes, then it said, licence is outdated and that scan and update would fail. I take it it's something unusual?

[tedy58]

OK m8s I read very carefully the thread but didn't find how to configure V3 version of NOD32 v3.0.669 to make an 'On demand scanner for use with NOD32' really works. In the 2.5 ver. it is clear in the thread, with parameters :
Run external application :...
/local /adware /ah /all /arch+ /clean /cleanmode /delete /heur+ /log+ /mailbox+ /ntfs+ /pack+ /quarantine /scanboot+ /scanmbr+ /scanmem+ /scroll+ /sfx+ /unsafe /wrap+

Can somebody explain how it run on ver.NOD32 v3.0.669?

Thanks in advance.

[The Hammer]

Originally Posted by Biscuit

Most computers that I have to clean are "protected" by Norton.

Norton is the most widely distributed thats why. And because of that it has the largest number of security illiterate users who can't even configure it or update it properly let alone keep their licences current. It's not a poor product.

[acr1965]

Originally Posted by vijayind

I would recommend Bitdefender Free Edition
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-1...e-Edition.html

Its ICSA certified and can detect viruses,worms,trojans, spyware and rootkits.
Plus unlike DrWeb CureIT! and other on-demand scanners, it can auto-update itself. So you don't need to download a new version for new defs everytime.

I kinda liked BitDefender free but it had a security issue nobody seemed to really care about. I had a false positive in quarantine (can't remember which it was, something about Hewlett-Packard). So the false positive is in quarantine and I decide I do not like the running processes of BD since it is on demand only. I disable the running processes and my firewall pops up saying the false positive in quarantine is trying to access the internet. It was phoning home to HP. The location was in BD quarantine and the web address it was trying to access was HP. I posted about this on the BD forums (and here at Wilders after BD did not respond). Not sure if BD fixed this or not.

[njtrout]

Sorry to jump in so late on this conversation, but ICSA Labs certification for desktop AV product DOES perform on-access and on-demand scanning.

If you go to their Website and look at the criteria for Desktop detection you will find 0n-demand and on-access described.

NJTrout

Originally Posted by dnewhous

NOD32 has the best real time protection you can get according to the ICSA ratings (the only personal use softare certified for anti-spyware) but the on demand scanner is not ICSA certified. There is very little software for personal use that is ICSA certified, so they are joining a large club. Is there an antivirus software that I can install and use strictly for schedule and on demand scanning that won't conflict with NOD32 and that is ICSA certified on Windows XP Professional?
Norton Antivirus is certified. McAfee VirusScan Plus is not certified on XP (and it comes with an uncertified firewall to boot).

[Mirjalovic]

In my opinion,,if you have a NOD 32,,& NOD said your computer was clean,that's mean you're clean.You don't need any on-demand scanner

just remember,mostly,you can't use your computer properly if you got infected by viruses ..

Set your NOD32 in on demand scanner profile with advanced heuristic,unsafe app , enabled etc (tick all of them) .. it's simple thing to do ..

aniway,if you're not sure with your current real-time AV,you can try MBAM or Avira Personal (with guard disabled when you install it)

CMIIW.