Anyone using ArcaVir anymore?

I saw many good words about this software in the part at Wilders. But now-a-days no one in talking about it. I saw it is performing bad in Virus Bulletin and PC Security Labs test. But anyone actually running this now?

P.S: Anyone aware of its free & Portable on-demand scanner?
http://www.raymond.cc/forum/spyware...scan-free-and-portable-on-demand-scanner.html

 

Please do you a favor and drop arcavir for anything that came to your mind..

Arcavir is one of two polish av, but actually they're very very poor in terms of detection and lightness..

Light years back after main players....

 

lol...

 

Is this av still around?
Haven't heard of it for years!

 

Yes it is still updated regularly...

 

The developers are currently only focused on the polish market but do offer full support to anyone else who happens to buy or use the product. The technology behind the AV is/was very good, ArcaBit being one of the first to have "deep unpack", registry scanner, etc.

Detection rates are not great simply because their focus is limited and the team tends to focus on threats affecting Poland only. It does, however, look very cool. Had it not been for somewhat poor detection rates, one would be proud to have such a cool looking AV on their system

 

Its indeed very cool looking and that's the first thing I attracted to...

 

ArcaVir is very poor antivirus, but polish! (lol) Don't install this! Never.

 

Hi, there are still users using ArcaVir. We are now present in Asia.

Please check out the link below :

www.arcavir.asia

 

I forgot they even existed. I try to keep up with latest developments in security, and I have not heard anything about them in a few years. There is not even any rating on them with WOT. This could be due to them relocating, but I have not a clue. Maybe someone should do some testing on them in a VM.

 

As I said in this topic keep away from it!!! Detection rate is a pure joke.

 

Is this conclusion from personal experience?

 

yes it is.
Not only my feelings but also people from safegroup.pl where we daily test 0-day malwares with diffirent av engines.
Please browse this topic (http://forum.safegroup.pl/zbior-niebezpiecznych-stron-plikow-malware-rogue-itp-t2188-3285.html) and you will find results from Arcavir as well (forum is in polish but the results are obvious)

Regards

 

And to think that for a short time, several years ago, Arcavir was flavour of the month here at Wilders;

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=65702&highlight=Arcavir

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=65702&highlight=Arcavir

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=69731&highlight=Arcavir

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=70999&highlight=Arcavir

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=73886&highlight=Arcavir

But that was long, long ago when Antivirus A v AntiVirus B could be discussed; the good old days

 

It's still not the worst AV you can get (IMO). More like middle of the pack, but even a "Standard" rated AV (by AV-comparatives) is better than it these days.

That makes me wonder how mks_vir is doing these days......

 

Scanned yesterday two wellknown exe files (safe ones I know) with JottiQ, both flagged by arcavir as bad, all the others told me they are clean. Says enough to me.

Gerard

 

I scan my PC often with the portable scanner. Never found it doing too many FP. Its not that bad IMO.

 

Hi, the new version ArcaVir 2011 will be out in English end of this month.

Please check out this link for more information, thank you and have a nice day.

--> http://www.arcavir.asia/arcanews/arcavir_2011

 

Firecat I admire your good memory, becouse many people in Poland forgot about this vendor. Basically mks is in state of bankruptcy

gerardwil: after scanning 2 files you judge if this program is good or not?
We scan tons of malware each day (please PM and I send you links), and trust me this is piece of .... not even an averange antivirus.

New version of Arcavir has only cosmetic improvements (memory footprint/parental controls..), unfortunattely engine is still the same.

 

Where can I change the language to English lol I don't speak Polish or whatever language that is. If you don't have it in English then Spanish or Italian would be fine as well Sorry, but i want be able to read the post in your forum unless Google translation works.

 

I scanned two files which are absolutely nothing wrong with, these files excists for years and years, so I was not scanning malware files.
No need for a PM, I know where to find those and use them every now and then (testing that is).

Gerard

 

Basically I want to say that your exemple with 2 files - proves nothing.

edit sorry it's my mistake apologize. Recently I was in kind of rush so I just misunderstood your post. I red it to fast and though that this two files were malicious detected by arcarvir only. Apologize again ;-)

Regards

 

No problem

Gerard