Roboscan ESTsoft ALYac Antivirus Basic: Uses BitDefender and ESTsoft’s Tera Engine

It's troubling that it seems to miss so much, considering it uses BD's engine. I almost have trouble recommending it. Yeah it does alright on VBulletin, but isn't that just on-demand detection?

 

It's indeed weird. I've tried some sample and it was missed. Uploaded it to VT and BitDefender was detecting it there.

 

It would be very detrimental to bitdefender if the roboscan engine performed EXACTLY the same.
There has to be a slight variation to justify buying BD in the first place rather than using free products with their engine installed.
I suppose zonealarm is the same analogy with using the kaspersky engine.

 

No, for e.g. BullGuard and F-Secure pretty much detect everything BitDefender does. I'm not sure what the relation between ZA and Kaspersky is; but they ought to be very close to each other.

 

I feel kind of bad recommending a product that doesn't perform as well as the product it uses the engine of.

 

It's also buggy.. Crashes, BSODS, strange freezes. I quickly rolled back the snapshot I had it on.. Terrible!

 

Sorry you folks are having problems. It's AOK on the many PCs I've installed.

 

I have also installed it on several Pcs (that's old Pentium 4s, 512 MB Ram)
and working smooth!! No problems!!

Don't mislead people. Nobody Likes Metro UI

 

That's a subjective view, made to look like a fact

 

I wouldn't say that. While Roboscan would use a full fledged BitDefender engine, it probably doesn't have behavior analysis engine that BD also uses. And that would set them apart.

 

yes I know, and I don't use Metro Ui too, but normal user don't knows how to skip and use it even if don't lkes it.
Robo needs some improvements in general and a 100% compatible version for 8

 

Is Roboscan worth the money then?

Just had this back from them;

There should be an update soon in 4-6 weeks As for the version without the firewall, let us confirm with our HQ and get back to you as soon as we have the answer Hope you enjoy the product!

I'm tempted to go for it at £7, if it uses the two engines.

 

That was kind of the whole point. The BD engine was implemented to (what's the word? Um...) supplement their in-house Alyac engine.

 

Well bitdefender has just released a free version of their AV so you could perhaps match this with a free firewall.(comodo or online armor)etc and get excellent protection which does not cost a penny.

 

I bought Bitdefender whilst it was on offer at just over £5.

Claiming a refund. It totally killed IE, reset home page, couldn't change back etc.

I'll stick to something else. Might give roboscan a chance

 

I have some reports of Roboscan's inconsistent behavior. Like On-Access scanner not detecting anything but context scan does. And i've seen similar weak performane from on-access though i haven't checked if context scan detects anything. Weird. Maybe one of those weird issues like i found one in the past with ArcaVir where heuristics didn't even function for realtime. But they did for all the other scans....

 

I have tested & compared RS & BD quite a few times. The test was static & realtime. The test was signature protection only. And in all the test RS was quite behind to BD. I find their inhouse engine poor. In none of my tests their inhouse engine detected a single malware.

The difference in signature detection may be RS is using an older BD engine.

or I dont know what else to think.

 

Their engine is probably mostly focused on South Korean malware specifically. Or at least the asian region.

 

So I was checking Roboscan's FB page and decided to read some user reviews when suddenly

FYI the reply was from Dec 28. Stay tuned guys

 

The current installer on their website is almost a year old. It's a nice program, but development seems lacking.

 

Have a look at the post above yours. There should be a new version released very soon.

 

On Facebook they told me to expect a new release "in a couple weeks".............That was a couple of weeks before Halloween. I wouldn't hold your breath.

 

With the free BitDefender out, this program seems pointless, especially considering its less-than-stellar detection rates.

 

Nah, with the auto-deleting-suspected-files feature of the new BitDefender FREE and its lack of advanced settings (excluding from scan, quarantine, you name it) I'd rather stick to Roboscan. At least for me the latter one never has a false positive.

Maybe the "threats" it missed out were something its Tera engine considers to be false positives.

 

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