Twister Antivirus

[tiagozt]

Page:
http://www.filseclab.com/eng/products/twister.htm

I'm seeing good detection rates...

[djohn]

O god,another,looks like a bloat load of stuff

[Jadda]

I can't open their site. Which country are they from? China? Typical China name - "twister".

[Edwin024]

mcafee siteadvisor gave a full red on their site... no good?

And it is a Chinese company... They are by the way also the creators of the free filseclab Personal Firewall Pro. Used it a long time ago. Not handy.

[JasSolo]

Originally Posted by Edwin024

mcafee siteadvisor gave a full red on their site... no good?

...or maybe they are just envious??........Naaaa


Cheers

[lordpake]

Originally Posted by Edwin024

mcafee siteadvisor gave a full red on their site... no good?

Well a little bit of viewing of the the actual review page would reveal that the reason for the red rating is linking to bunch of red-rated sites.

This is only speculation in my part but they could easily be various download sites which offer this application for download. This has happened before with SA rating sites red due to them linking to various download sites which offer all sorts of files (including those that have say adware included).

[Firecat]

Why, AVG 8 blocks access to the Twister AV page, showing a resident shield alert about "Exploit Rogue Spyware Scanner".....

From what I hear Twister is actually a bit decent. Program upgrades are slow to come by though. Dunno

[emperordarius]

Not listed in SpywareWarrior's rogue page... so it shouldn't be a rogue.

[Nike_P]

how is their detection-rate compaire to other's anti-virus?
and is this AV light or is it heavy?

[emperordarius]

Amazing...you pay for one license and you get it lifetime!
Is it good, because it's firewall got the lowest result in Matousec's leak tests.

[Joe_Jones]

http://www.download.com/Twister-Anti....html?v=1&sb=1

It seems it is here for years already ..

[emperordarius]

Originally Posted by Joe_Jones

http://www.download.com/Twister-Anti....html?v=1&sb=1

It seems it is here for years already ..

The 3 review look good but I haven't noticed any "professional" review.

[Saraceno]

Program changes/updates:
http://www.filseclab.com/eng/product...er_whatnew.htm

The program is updating several times a day. See today's history:
http://www.filseclab.com/eng/history/history.htm

# 05/11/2008 21:40 (7). Twister virus definition v7.230.46876(05/11/2008.21:40) released, add new 191 Trojans and viruses. 7st update today, daily count 803. Total 607216.
# 05/11/2008 18:17 (6). Twister virus definition v7.230.34701(05/11/2008.18:17) released, add new 166 Trojans and viruses. 6st update today, daily count 612. Total 607025.
# 05/11/2008 15:38 (5). Twister virus definition v7.230.25144(05/11/2008.15:38) released, add new 105 Trojans and viruses. 5st update today, daily count 446. Total 606859.
# 05/11/2008 11:49 (4). Twister virus definition v7.230.11401(05/11/2008.11:49) released, add new 74 Trojans and viruses. 4st update today, daily count 341. Total 606754.
# 05/11/2008 08:34 (3). Twister virus definition v7.229.65265(05/11/2008.08:34) released, add new 44 Trojans and viruses. 3st update today, daily count 267. Total 606680.
# 05/11/2008 06:18 (2). Twister virus definition v7.229.57059(05/11/2008.06:18) released, add new 50 Trojans and viruses. 2st update today, daily count 223. Total 606636.
# 05/11/2008 03:30 (1). Twister virus definition v7.229.47007(05/11/2008.03:30) released, add new 173 Trojans and viruses. 1st update today, daily count 173. Total 606586.

So is it a dud of a program, or does it actually perform ok?

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by emperordarius

Not listed in SpywareWarrior's rogue page... so it shouldn't be a rogue.

SpywareWarrior's rogue page has not been updated in over a year.

[Saraceno]

Here's a user review from someone also recommending SAS and A2:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...8044418AAQVU6B

Twister Trojan Antivirus V7
Download their free home for personal use.

Antivirus program I use. You only pay a one time fee of $29.99. and you get all updates and all new versions for life.

Read the webpage and if you like what you read this is the antivirus of choce I have used for over ten years and never one virus.

By culture the Chinese are very secret just about everything and that includes their software.

This antivirus program out of Beijing, China that is also used by the Government of China.

This antivirus program does not have the Govt. permission to be rated with all other known antivirus programs.

What I can assure you is that you pay only a one time fee for life that will include all auto updates, and all new versions for life. The Chinese don't believe in having to pay an annual fee for updates or new versions.

I can tell you their technology is light years ahead of any other known antivirus software out there.

If you open a webpage and there is a hidden virus it will clean in realtime. Anything that you download and has even a trace code, it will kill the download and ask you to upload the trace code for investigation. In real time the upload will tell you if it is clean or not.

Will not allow you download, Real Player, because there is a hidden file that is a trojan keylogger. The file was uploaded and traced back to the United States Army, Intelligence Services out of London, England. (Removal of the file Real Player will reject the installation).

Read for yourself at their webpage. I have never had one virus in ten plus years. Plus it will catch any progam with it's dynamic defense system, for software that you download and it does not have a publisher or lic., included.

Very low on resources with scanner running in background.

http://www.filseclab.com

Otherwise google search is looking lean.

[Martijn2]

Filseclab.com does not produce rogue software. I used their firewall years ago.. pity that it's not being updated anymore.

[tiagozt]

Originally Posted by Nike_P

how is their detection-rate compaire to other's anti-virus?
and is this AV light or is it heavy?

It's very light and the detection is surprising me...
Many samples that are not detected by known AVs are detected by Twister.
Two samples that I sent to F-Secure to be added to database are detected by Twister.
Two samples that I send to Twister labs yesterday are being detected today... (but I didn't receive e-mail feedback)

People, you need to take care with prejudice...
You can't say an AV isn't good or that it's a fraud only because it's chinese or because MCafee site advisor is telling that the page is dangerous... Mcafee AV, for example, probably detects less than 50% of Twister detection...
I'm doing tests with other samples and I'm positively scared with the results...
I think it can be other good AV in our list... I have no doubt that Twister detection is better than other known AV software.
You can give a chance to Twister and try it before creating wrong ideas.

[djohn]

No A Vs B policy here It will probably be closed Know,I Hope we can stay on just the topic on hand,So we all can see some users thoughts.My only opinion at this time Is It seems bloated by the screenies you provided.

[ErikAlbert]

I ran Twister AntiVirus V7 R3 version 7.3.1.9969
Quite a long installation/update, but no troubles at all.

Full Scan Results :
Scanned: 168812
Infected: 0
Elapsed Time : 00:12:43, fast but not 2 minuts.

No false positives and that's very good. That's what I call light years ahead technology.
I leave it up to AV experts to evaluate this one.

To me it's just another scanner, that didn't detect anything like all the rest.
After all I'm an average user, who wants to get rid of malware as fast as possible and without the show.

[tiagozt]

If Wilders policy doesn't block VirusTotal and/or comparative data I could show that you are wrong in your sentence:
"To me it's just another scanner, that didn't detect anything like all the rest."
But I can't... :|

[bellgamin]

I might give it a try but $29.95 is a bit steep for a little-known AV with no track record.

As to "lifetime licenses," I never rely on such a preposterous business model as that. By inference, the company is offering to perpetually maintain a product that it sells just once. Blarney! It is expensive to maintain an AV at state-of-the-art. When a company offers to do that, its "lifetime" license" generally refers NOT to the user's lifetime, but to the lifetime of the company. And the lifetime of companies making those sorts of offers is usually very brief.

[ErikAlbert]

Originally Posted by tiagozt

If Wilders policy doesn't block VirusTotal and/or comparative data I could show that you are wrong in your sentence:
"To me it's just another scanner, that didn't detect anything like all the rest."
But I can't... :|

Give me any scanner and I will run it. I know the scan results already in advance : 0 threats found.
I ran already so many scanners to verify my setup. VirusTotal won't make a difference.
What is so special about VirusTotal, it's just a collection of scanners, nothing more than that.

[LowWaterMark]

Originally Posted by tiagozt

If Wilders policy doesn't block VirusTotal and/or comparative data I could show that you are wrong in your sentence:
"To me it's just another scanner, that didn't detect anything like all the rest."
But I can't... :|

tiagozt, Erik wasn't talking about scanning some malware collection and this product not finding anything. He was talking about scanning his already clean PC with it and it detecting nothing because he has no malware on his PC. That's all. VT results won't tell us anything about Erik's PC or his whole 'boot to restore' setup. Erik, now that I've said it for you, let's not get into your configuration again in yet another thread about an AV scanner, okay?

[tiagozt]

Originally Posted by bellgamin

I might give it a try but $29.95 is a bit steep for a little-known AV with no track record.

As to "lifetime licenses," I never rely on such a preposterous business model as that. By inference, the company is offering to perpetually maintain a product that it sells just once. Blarney! It is expensive to maintain an AV at state-of-the-art. When a company offers to do that, its "lifetime" license" generally refers NOT to the user's lifetime, but to the lifetime of the company. And the lifetime of companies making those sorts of offers is usually very brief.

The DEMO key is 90-day... Three months is a good time to try an AV.

[tiagozt]

Originally Posted by LowWaterMark

tiagozt, Erik wasn't talking about scanning some malware collection and this product not finding anything. He was talking about scanning his already clean PC with it and it detecting nothing because he has no malware on his PC. That's all. VT results won't tell us anything about Erik's PC or his whole 'boot to restore' setup. Erik, now that I've said it for you, let's not get into your configuration again in yet another thread about an AV scanner, okay?

Ok... I understood wrong...
Of course If people has a good AV or a responsible attitude with computer and internet can keep your computer clean with or without AV software.