IKARUS Virus.Utilities 2.0.121

Overall, Ikarus may have a good detection rate but IMHO, particularly on cost grounds, there are much better AV alternatives.

40 Euros for a standalone AV package, even for 3 licenses, seems to be a very steep price to pay, particularly with the standard of the free AVs presently available!

 

I agree £33 pounds for a year/3 users is a lot.I paid £22 for 3 years and 3 users for NIS 2012 ,and that includes a firewall too (i think ikarus is just an av?).There doesnt seem to be any offers or discounts for this av like the more popular ones either.

 

Why can't I get a trial license, all I receive is a blank email.

 

u will get an attached file with ur email.. download and apply in Ikarus

 

Unfortunately there is no forum for support,but you have the Russian forum section for ikarus http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=28707&start=0 admittedly rather sparse and limited, but still has something.I know that some people from Ikarus read this forum.
My experience with support is very good,for a very short time get an answer.

 

well I decided to buy it and go with it. I really like it.

 

@trjam
great going .......what's the memory usage of Ikarus?...on-demand scan speed(objects/files scanned and time taken)?....start-up time with and without Ikarus?.....feel any sloppiness during browsing?........

 

it is very light, I mean if it wasnt, it wouldnt be used,. Browsing is very fast.

 

Trying it, and everything seems quite light indeed. Everything except one thing. Which is dreadful. Something confirmed here:

http://www.raymond.cc/antivirus/fileio.html

An older engine is used there, and I think there is some improvement, but certainly slower in that regard than most others I have tried.

 

look how old that version is 1.0.214 . It scans as fast for me as others do.

 

@trjam
hmm....I guess it's light.....well did you test it any live malware?.......

 

my suggestion would be to get a trial license and try it. Then you will know.

 

@trjam
yeah I'm also planning to give the trial a go......but not until I finish the Emsisoft trial......

 

King Grub, I am pretty sure that Virus Utilities uses the Ikarus T3.dll engine and T3sigs.vdb data.

 

I would still side with EAM, huge discounts and better protection overall.

 

Just a note...EMSI working great here...

 

I'm writing this down....

 

Is it possible to have any mirror because from the site only download 2.074.. cheers

 

Thank you for your honest view.
We are working on international prices right now.
But there is also good news in high prices ;-).
You will get support directly from the customer via phone, skype or email and there is no callcenter or a presales-Agent from a distributor.
We do not distinguish between whatever licence a customer uses if 1lic private use or company everyone gets direct support.

br,
Ziggy, IKARUS HQ vienna

 

Hi Ziggy, good to see someone from Ikarus at Wilders Welcome.

Hopefully working them down. Ikarus is a good product but IMHO, too expensive for a standalone AV, even with the support quoted.

Any news on some sort of behaviour blocker/HIPS/web scanner in the pipe-line for Ikarus; and any thoughts on more options for the Guard/Scanner etc becoming available e.g. controlling which files the Guard scans?

 

Thanks.
for private use you can use the licence for 3 PC´s - Laptops - i will let you know as soon as we do have new prices - btw. how much would you pay?
what do you think is a fair price - send me a pm ;-)

Web scanner - if you mean HTML and URL filtering - we do have a security proxy for scanning HTTP and locking URL´s by default due to category lists or customized sets.

 

pm sent.

Incidentally, the main Ikarus site is down this morning.

 

yep it is. Hopefully not long

 

Thumbs up ;-)

 

-http://fileexchange.ikarus.at/vu/Setup-virus_utilities_2.0.74.exe-