Padvysh Antivirus Free Edition

Initial thoughts after installing this on win 7 32bit ,is that it has a pleasant GUI with some informative pie graphs concerning detection percentages etc and sys tray icon ,that indicates updating ,warnings etc.Its easy to navigate through settings etc.It puts a driver in services ,with name and description in Persian not english,but google translation sorts that out for the curious.Its very light running with hardly any impact ,though I did find more impact when real time cloud scanning was enabled.There was also much more disk activity.It registers itself in action centre as antivirus ,but not as spyware and unwanted software protection.One thing I didnt like is that if the system guard thinks it has detected what it calls a "definite threat" there is no interactive mode ...you have to set a choice of clean delete or ignore ,and this is then performed without user intervention.There is however an option to copy any deleted or cleaned threats to quarntine.If however system guard detects what it thinks is a "suspicious threat" then it allows you to choose whether to clean delete or ignore interactively.This is the way i would prefer the "definite threats " to work too .There doesnt appear to be any signs of ads or social network marketing on the gui ,and this a plus imo.For pure simplicity ,looks and resource usage ,id give this a 9 out of 10.For protection im not going to get involved in that ,other than to say ,it detected and blocked the eicar test stuff,and it did as good as others ive tried by just throwing stuff downloaded from malc0de at it.Ill leave any serious detection comments to the experts.

 

@ ellison64

Do you have any screenshots?

 

Thanks, the GUI looks fresh.

 

From the Iranian Vendor,AmnPardaz....with new design,still progressing

Features:

• Completely free

• Suitable for home users

• Detects and prevents all types of malwares

• Ability to scan files automatically and manually

• Installable on Windows 32 and 64 bit operating systems

• Automatic updates via the Internet

• Optimized to maintain the high performance of the system

• Smart engine for unknown malware

• Equipped with cloud technology to identify new, dangerous and unknown threats

• Access to a highly qualified analysis team for new malware analysis

• Ability to clean, quarantine and remove detected malware files

• Ability to update without internet connection (via File)

• Game Mode

• Virtual Keyboard

• Special protection, prevents malwares from infecting your computer through USB disks

•Ability to question the user when dealing with suspicious files

•Ability to exclude files and folders from a scan or system guard.













http://padvish.com/contents.php/en/147/Padvish-Antivirus-Free

 

It's look nice, but it seems that the detection rate is poor. It's a shame there is no option to prompt for action when a known threat is found. It is nice that it can prompt when a suspicious file is detected though.

 

Curious, because it was a "foreign security software" (VBA32) that discovered the Stuxnet worm.​