Command Antivirus

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  1. Honyak

    Honyak Registered Member

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    I did not find much doing a search so I am seeking comments and experience concerning Command Antivirus.
     
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    bigc73542 Retired Moderator

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    did you try here I have used command in the past and it runs light on the system and has a good detection rate
     
  3. Honyak

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    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.

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

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    In short:

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

    Cons: Better packer support is desired…


    tECHNODROME
     
  6. Honyak

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    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?
     
  7. Technodrome

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



    tECHNODROME
     
  8. Honyak

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    Thank you Technodrome.
    How long have you used it?

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  9. Technodrome

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    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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  10. Honyak

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    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.
     
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    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.

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    mercurie A Friendly Creature

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    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. ;)
     
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  14. Honyak

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    What was difficult to set up?

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    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. ;)
     
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  16. Honyak

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

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

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    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
     
  21. Cap'n Kirk

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    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.
     
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