Roboscan ESTsoft ALYac Antivirus Basic: Uses BitDefender and ESTsoft’s Tera Engine

[Cimmerian]

Reinstalled RIS late last night, updated perfectly. Keeping my fingers crossed that it continues to do so. I'm guessing I just had a buggy install last go-round, though I thought it went fine.

[clocks]

This program has become possibly my favorite freebie at the moment. Tests really well for me, is light weight, and has a solid GUI.

[nord1]

Originally Posted by clocks

This program has become possibly my favorite freebie at the moment. Tests really well for me, is light weight, and has a solid GUI.

Clocks,

Yes, agree... light, easy to setup, hasn't conflicted with Malwarebytespro. Updates work fine, except it always says one day back, but as I am in NYC, that day off is probably meaningless. Nice so far.

[zapjb]

It's on every PC I get my hands on. Really like it!

[Cloud]

I like it as well.

RIS + BD Trafficlight = Custom BD suite.

[zapjb]

Great BD Trafficlight doesn't support Opera. Not right BD!

[clocks]

Originally Posted by Cloud

I like it as well.

RIS + BD Trafficlight = Custom BD suite.

Nice thinking! And without the annoying auto-delete of BD.


A little off topic, but I've tested both the BD 2013 beta and Trafficlight separately, and Trafficlight doesn't seem to block nearly as much as the webguard in BD. Are they not the same?

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by clocks

A little off topic, but I've tested both the BD 2013 beta and Trafficlight separately, and Trafficlight doesn't seem to block nearly as much as the webguard in BD. Are they not the same?

I believe they share the same URL database but the detection by the realtime results could be different.

Originally Posted by zapjb

Great BD Trafficlight doesn't support Opera. Not right BD!

It is supported, you have to download the full installer.

[firzen771]

decided to give this a shot since my avast license ran out and i am pleasantly surprised. has pretty much everything i want and its free.

[Cyrano2]

Testing Roboscan free and wondering if its safe to scan only executables.

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Cyrano2

Testing Roboscan free and wondering if its safe to scan only executables.

I wouldn't recommend it.

[clocks]

Originally Posted by Cloud

I like it as well.

RIS + BD Trafficlight = Custom BD suite.

Though in Norton DNS for extra, resource free protection, and you have a great layered free setup.

[blasev]

I'm trying this one , so far all are good

@cloud : could you tell me your personal opinion on how "light" roboscan, compared to cloud anti virus?

thanks

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by blasev

@cloud : could you tell me your personal opinion on how "light" roboscan, compared to cloud anti virus?

Panda Cloud is indeed lighter but you know, Roboscan is a suite. However, it is both light and powerful.

[Spyros]

Is the detection still lower than BitDefender?

[lodore]

how much disc space does this product use and how frequent are the updates?

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Spyros

Is the detection still lower than BitDefender?

Idk? If it works... then it works. Product is working fine in most of the youtube tests and I do not see any thing wrong with the realtime modules. Perhaps they are simply expecting too much from BitDefender. BD could have tweaked the engine in their product line so it does not help the situation much.

Originally Posted by lodore

how much disc space does this product use and how frequent are the updates?

Look at the system requirements and trial the product for yourself. That is all I can say.

[clocks]

Originally Posted by Spyros

Is the detection still lower than BitDefender?

It's close. Roboscan rates up there with the best of the freebies I have tested. But I find Norton and BD are probably the tops in terms of protection. Roboscan is VERY close though in all the tests I have done. I also appreciate that RIS will ask you what to do with the virus, and will not automatically delete it like many others do, which can be an issue with false positives.

As others have suggested, run RIS with Trafficlight and/or Norton DSN. Great combo.

[clocks]

Originally Posted by lodore

how much disc space does this product use and how frequent are the updates?

I'm not on the PC where I have it installed, but if I recall it was around 400-500meg on the hard drive. It updates a few times per day, like most other freebies. Maybe 3-6x per day?

[Cimmerian]

Originally Posted by lodore

how much disc space does this product use and how frequent are the updates?

It shows 498mb on my hard drive, and with auto-update selected, it checks roughly every 2 hours. It can be set to check periodically as well, with 1-2-3-5-6-12 & 24 hour selections available. There were 5 updates on this pc for the 8 or so hours it was running last night/this morning.

[clocks]

About 392meg in program files, and another 96meg in program data. Not sure if the 92 meg was just for installation?

BTW - I no longer suggest using BD Trafficlight with RIS. First of all, it really isn't needed. RIS is good enough on it's own. Secondly, I find Trafficlight raises my pings from 18-20 to about 550ms.

[Cimmerian]

Originally Posted by clocks

About 392meg in program files, and another 96meg in program data. Not sure if the 92 meg was just for installation?

395 & 103 on my pc. I would guess the Program Data files are most likely install or set-up related.

[Cimmerian]

Originally Posted by clocks

BTW - I no longer suggest using BD Trafficlight with RIS. First of all, it really isn't needed. RIS is good enough on it's own. Secondly, I find Trafficlight raises my pings from 18-20 to about 550ms.

See this thread about TrafficLight, a bit surprising.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=325217

[IvoShoen]

I installed this today (without the firewall) and its running great along side of Private Firewall. My system is more robust than with avast or Panda. Scans are also really fast and detection rates really good.

[ellison64]

Originally Posted by IvoShoen

I installed this today (without the firewall) and its running great along side of Private Firewall. My system is more robust than with avast or Panda. Scans are also really fast and detection rates really good.

Can you share how you installed without the firewall?.I dont recall seeing any custom options to not install it ,last time i used it.
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