F-Prot or F-Secure...

Which one is better? F-Prot or F-Secure? And is NOD32 better than both?

Regards,
Daniel

 

1. F-secure
2. F-prot
3. NOD32

But there is a difference in memory usage. F-secure takes lot more memory than f-prot or nod32. But this is normal, because it uses 3 scan engines.

I like F-secure 5.41 or 5.42 because newer versions have other stuff included: Internet Shield, Firewall, etc, and I don't like that.

Regards

 

F-Secure if your computer can handle it. A good candidate for this AV might be something with a P4 processor and a gigabyte of RAM.

NOD32 if you have an older computer, but still want an AV that detects almost everything. (Note that NOD is currently a bit behind in the trojan-detection department.)

F-Prot if you have a really ancient computer, or do not want to experience any drain on resources. (F-Prot also has sub-par trojan detection. If you want better Trojan detection, you'll probably want Command AV.)

 

Command has better trojan detection than F-Prot? I thought it was just a retooled and rebranded F-Prot.

 

F-prot uses the standard f-prot engine where as command uses the f-prot professional engine and command has it's own virus defs, trojan defs and hueristics.

 

Hey,
Been looking around I have decided to to forget the "Which Three" see that post. Thinking I will go with COMMAND, and thanks for the help you folks do a good service.

 

I think you will like command, I have used them all and command works lighter and with almost daily updates good support with very good detection rates. very easy to configure.

 

If you would like to see what is heuristics, I put a screen of f-secure detecting some unknown virus which was get by email.

http://www.mobisux.com/album/data/500/20561f-secure.jpg

 

Apparently it's also very cheap, at $14.95 for a 1 year license.

 

Command Antivirus seems to be a pretty good deal except it lacks one feature which IMHO is essential for a modern antivirus--a real time email scanner. I have the licensed product and as far as I can see, it can only scan emails from Outlook in real time.

 

NOT an essential but a further addition to the AV layer.

Many people use an AV without an email scanner e.g. F-Prot for Windows or choose to run their AV without the email scanner being switched on. Your Running on-access Guard should catch any malware coming in this way.

Therefore Command will give you good protection from malware trying to enter via this source and the new version will apparently have some sort of email scanner.

 

kloshar, that is not exactly right: that F-Secure alert is not due to its heuristics, but it is just the way, the F-Prot engine categorizes many of the "not-so-important"-malware samples, which are in fact detected by _signatures_. Most backdoors are detected with that kind of alert - and believe me, neither F-Prot, nor F-Secure have a good backdoor heuristic.
So, it just looks like heuristcs... but it isn't....

F-Prot users, who play around with malware, should be able to confirm this.

 

But KAV has it. And AVP engine in KAV is the same as in F-secure.

 

"But KAV has it. "

Hm, I don't think so... at least, I haven't seen any heuristic detection of a backdoor by KAV...

How do you come to believe, that KAV (and therefore F-Secure) have a strong backdoor heuristic? Any test, or something?

 

F-Secure uses old AVP engine and KAV doesn't have special rules to pickup backdoors.