G-Data 2010 Products

I read all the great things here at wilders about G-Data 2010, how 'light' it should be etc. - I was bored and so I tested trial version (just antivirus) today. - Well, it's gone again already.

Why? On my System (Athlon 64 X2 4850e, 2 GB RAM, XP Pro SP3) it slowed down everything in a way I couldn't tolerate! The full scan lasted forever, doing it again I strangely felt no speed improvement at all (theres a feature to only check new files, out of order?) and most important: surfing the web was no fun anymore. It lags big time. - What a waste of time it was.

BTW: I came from Avira (free) + Prevx (paid) and I am back to this couple. In my experience much faster, lighter and you have fun surfing because pages are loading immediately exactly as it should be, system responds very quickly etc.

Before Avira I was using NOD32, but that (v3 and v4) slowed down surfing also too much for me. So ... who knows .. maybe I just don't like webfilters? ;-)

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by c2d

I just installed GDATA AV 2010 trial and curently testing it on my 3 years old PC.
So far so good
GUI looks great and program is running light and fast (35-40 MB)
First update was about 110 MB size
I m doing the full system scan and it look fast but not as fast as Avira's scan.
Running great with Outpost Pro 2009

ye first update is HUGE and so is the installer, they definetly need to do somethin about that... its about triple the size of most installers if not more...

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by guest

I read all the great things here at wilders about G-Data 2010, how 'light' it should be etc. - I was bored and so I tested trial version (just antivirus) today. - Well, it's gone again already.

Why? On my System (Athlon 64 X2 4850e, 2 GB RAM, XP Pro SP3) it slowed down everything in a way I couldn't tolerate! The full scan lasted forever, doing it again I strangely felt no speed improvement at all (theres a feature to only check new files, out of order?) and most important: surfing the web was no fun anymore. It lags big time. - What a waste of time it was.

BTW: I came from Avira (free) + Prevx (paid) and I am back to this couple. In my experience much faster, lighter and you have fun surfing because pages are loading immediately exactly as it should be, system responds very quickly etc.

Before Avira I was using NOD32, but that (v3 and v4) slowed down surfing also too much for me. So ... who knows .. maybe I just don't like webfilters? ;-)

well webfilter was quite snappy for me, no lag times on java heavy pages either, and overall system performance was still pretty good for me, i didnt check scan speed tho, but im on Windows 7 so maybe an XP issue or another issue with anything else ur running or used to have installed before.

Originally Posted by firzen771

well webfilter was quite snappy for me

Imagine 1, 2 sometimes maybe 3 seconds (subjectively felt, not time stopped!) of nothing happening. After clicking a link. That's what we are talking about here.

but im on Windows 7 so maybe an XP issue or another issue with anything else ur running or used to have installed before.

Who knows ... well there clearly MUST be a reason that you all are full of praise and only (?) I am not. - But I am glad it's gone now and maybe 2011 I try it again.

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by guest

Imagine 1, 2 sometimes maybe 3 seconds (subjectively felt, not time stopped!) of nothing happening. After clicking a link. That's what we are talking about here.



Who knows ... well there clearly MUST be a reason that you all are full of praise and only (?) I am not. - But I am glad it's gone now and maybe 2011 I try it again.

its probly a conflict of some sort it sounds like. and ye id get rid of it to with that kind of web delay, but lucky for me ther wasnt any delay, but either way overall it still wasnt AS light as my current solution so i ditched it and my main concerns about it wer the abnormally huge update and the GIGANTIC installer size... the update took ages.

[mvdu]

The Av-comparatives test really makes me want to try this out again..

[Thankful]

What two engines does it use?

[Macstorm]

Originally Posted by Thankful

What two engines does it use?

Avast & Bitdefender for their home products

[Narxis]

Originally Posted by Thankful

What two engines does it use?

Engine A=BitDefender
Engine B=Avast

[Thankful]

Macstorm and Narxis,

Thank you.

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by Macstorm

Avast & Bitdefender for their home products

for their home products? do they use some other engines for their business products perhaps?

[Macstorm]

Originally Posted by firzen771

for their home products? do they use some other engines for their business products perhaps?

yes as i far as i know, they seem to use a different 'engine combo' for their business products. Let me confirm this please.

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by Macstorm

yes as i far as i know, they seem to use a different 'engine combo' for their business products. Let me confirm this please.

i see, im curious to hear which engines they use for that.

[vlk]

AFAIK it's BitDefender and Avast even for the business products. Previously, it was BD+Avast for consumer and Kaspersky+Avast for business, but recently, they ditched Kaspersky altogether.

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by vlk

AFAIK it's BitDefender and Avast even for the business products. Previously, it was BD+Avast for consumer and Kaspersky+Avast for business, but recently, they ditched Kaspersky altogether.

o ok, thx for clarifying.

[Ford Prefect]

The current business products definitely use also BitDefender and avast.

cu,

Ford

[Macstorm]

Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

The current business products definitely use also BitDefender and avast.

Yep, it's confirmed.

I have read also that it was until the last year's versions that business & enterprise products were using the F-Prot engine as well.

[trjam]

well, my 2 laptops that are only turned on once or twice a day have not been updating. Set it to connect on internet connevtion and to update once a day but nothing works. Also started to run a tad heavy on both laptops. So back to the only thing that works for me.

[DVD+R]

Good God! when will you install (1) Antivirus and stick with it longer than lunchtime tjram

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by DVD+R

Good God! when will you install (1) Antivirus and stick with it longer than lunchtime tjram

keep dreaming

Good job, trjam!

Congrats mate, you recently lured me successfully into trying G-Data 2010 (btw: was nice to see my otherwise fast system finally crumbling down for once and behaving like some GHz were mysteriously stolen ) but from now on I (PRAY to ) strongly resist the urge to install everything and all that someone *blink* enthusiastically recommends and praises here at Wilders until he is suddenly in the mood to change his avatar *AGAIN*.

Just in case you do your marketing-avatar-thingy to throw people off your scent: In vain because you are recognized by your nickname, the comments of the fooled and therefore the trick really works only one time. So I hope.

Damn .. should I try Avast 5 beta or not!?!

Relax please .. just kidding and staying for the day with Prevx (remember? ) as only protection! At least this is the plan. Right now .. (what time is it? ) .. but once infected with 'Wilders-AKA-Quest-For-The-Best-AV-Disease' you never know, RIGHT?

Well .. they should have quarantined us all LONG before!

[Narxis]

Hi!

Does someone had connecting to Steam Counter Strike Source or Team Fortress 2 servers when the latest G Data Internet Security 2010 installed on Windows 7?

[Narxis]

The new software update (20.2.0.6) was released recently and contains the following key changes:


- Optimization of software and signature updates

- Windows 7-optimization

- E-mail scanning optimized at different points

- Improved communication between Outlook plug-in and port monitoring

- Optimizing the use of firewall with VPN connections

- TeamSpeak fixed on Windows 7

- Faster display of the behavior of the software in minutes

[apathy]

I installed Gdata 2010 AV on my netbook and ran down the malware url list. It doesn't matter
if it is flash/shockwave droppers or nasty fake av software GDATA was blocking it and working within Sandboxie.

[trjam]

I like trying new software then getting rid of it to try some of the stuff I know and use. Then I come back later and try the new product out again and realize, it really is good.