Honest Opinion about antivirus switch of Online Armor AV++

Discussion in 'other anti-malware software' started by JCorliss, Jul 2, 2009.

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  1. webster

    webster Registered Member

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    I love it, it`s great, it runs light without issues. Good work Mike and TallEmu guys :thumb:

    But i don`t understand Ikarus false positives. Heuristics will have false alarms, that`s okay, but Ikarus often flags legitimate files as trojan Hupigon and whatever. It really shouldn`t do this. It`s too much IMHO.
     
  2. Peter2150

    Peter2150 Global Moderator

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    Close, but not yet. I think something almost more important then detection and FP's is the way the two key people are working together.

    Pete
     
  3. Astech

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    I agree 100%:)
     
  4. webster

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    I agree too, but if FP becomes too much of an issue, OA++ could degrade from outstanding to just excellent ;)
     
  5. Peter2150

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    I have a crystal ball that tells me that isn't about to happen.:D

    Pete
     
  6. alex_s

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    any chance to rent it ? :)
     
  7. N2thuWild

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    Hi, I read that OA ++ can be used in conjunction with another installed anti-virus program.? If the already installed anti-virus is A-Squared Anti-Malware Premium, can OA ++ be used with that? Probably silly question but...:D
     
  8. MikeNash

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    Did you get any false positives? The only FP I saw was in part of our rootkit detector, but this was tuned up just before release.

    Remember, OA has a whitelist - so even in the event that a virus is detected, OA won't alert on it if the whitelist overrides. This should take care of much of the potential for FP.
     
  9. webster

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    Yes, a backdoor hupigon in a legit file (can`t remember which), even without heuristics. It was fixed pretty fast, so no big issue. The file propably got whitelisted, and it took care of it, i guess.

    But a false positive upload feature would be nice. Already posted the feature request in your forums.
     
  10. MikeNash

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    It's planned :)

    We'll be getting and prioritising FP reports I guess, but we will automatically be flowing them on to Emsisoft, who will automatically flow them on to Ikarus.
     
  11. alex_s

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    Nice surprise about b29 is it seems to be able to detect and deactivate rootkits:
     

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    very intresting :) OA removes rootkits too;) cool
     
  13. webster

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    Quite impressive :)
     
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