Best On Demand Scanners?

in that case i'm dumb, so please post a link.

 

As some members have already indicated, you do not need TWO AVs in a layered defense.

She/newbies would be better protected with a Sandbox (Sandboxie)or/and a behaviour Blocker (ThreatFire) to sit alongside NOD/an AV.

 

bitdefender also offers on demand however it does run in the system try with automatic updates.

 

Take a look here .

 

I just saw this ThreatFire, that PC Tools bought out.

http://www.threatfire.com/

Never heard of it before...

THANKS

 

In, that case its kind of like a behaviour monitering thingy.

 

Threatfire has LOTS of threads here at Wilders for you to look at.

See for example;

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=191853
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=197242
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=195829

 

thanks. blackcat

 

THANKS, what's this TF I hear people talking about?

 

TF=ThreatFire.

 

Ahh ok thanks...

Sounds like Prevx is better...

 

nope its not like prevx.

threatfire uses basic (or advanced... whatever) rules to figure out by a programs behavior if it is a threat or not, it detects executed threats only, as far as im aware.

prevx has its own malware detection, plus technology such as behavior based and sandbox technologys to dig into files to see what it actually could do.

prevx uses an online database, (CIPS)

eg. if a guy in the states runs into a NEW threat, which would be found prevxs behavior/sandbox technologys, prevx will label the file as malware. automatically, at that same moment, i will be protected by that exact new threat here in the UK.

i dont pretend to be an expert with these types of programs, but i do know they aint the same.

 

What I meant by better is it seems to offer more protection, at least that was the assumption I was under.

 

This doesn't look good, LOL, looks like I wont be getting TF...
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=196388

 

It's a good idea to stay on topic or create a new thread for alternate discussion.

 

Yes we are wandering off the road into the ditch, LOL...

But just remember it's ok to make your own post go off topic, just don't hijack someone else's thread is what they say... hehe.

 

We are getting of the topic by posting we are getting off the topic unfortunately, and i was stupid enough to get off the topic.

 

I want an on demand scanner that's like an AV installed on the box, updates, scans, deletes, etc...

I also had NOD32 v2 installed and it got it's butt kicked, and was over taken. Personally given the track history I've seen with Eset I was really surprised to see that Nod32 was brought to it's knees and crippled. What happened is some virus/malware turned Nod against itself thinking one of it's exes was a virus and removing it, thus killing it.

This made me think to have an extra app on the box to scan weekly to hopefully avoid what NOD32 failed to detect.

For now I think I'll go with ClamAV

THANKS

 

You can use Avira like that. Here is a page that shows how to install Avira for on-demand scanning: http://doctus.org/avira-antivirin-tarama-amacli-demand-t5343.html

Page is turkish but you can understand from screenshots.

 

Thanks, I just put in Avira for real time, and I'll give her ClamAV for on demand, and see how it plays out...

THANKS

 

My choice would be Avast or AVG on access and Avira on-demand.

 

Well actually ClamWin...

Well as a Unix geek I've known of Clam since it started, opensource, free, and been doing fairly well.

And as it's mentioned on their site this will fit the bill for an on demand scanner, and I've never used it, so might as well give it a go...

ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

THANKS

 

The "doing fairly well" really needs a bit of a rethink unless there's been a major (and I do mean major) performance shift of late. Personally, I believe that "open source" and "requires continuous/daily updates" are mutually exclusive in a practical sense.

Blue

 

mrhero,
is there any kind of "tailoring" that is needed to keep it off the startup list, or to keep processes from running in the task manager?
is it easy to uninstall, should some kind of conflict occur?