What AV does PC Wolrd use

I took my machine into the store for an upgrade today and the technician said they would do a heath check. I didnt have time so i said no. But they said they have this professinal virus checker which is better than any retail software version you can buy and will find every possible virus on your machine.

I am curious as to what it was. I asked if it was mcafee enterprise or kaspersky and they said it was better than either of those.

This has made me very curious. What is it they are doing to check for viruses and where can i get it.

Thanks
Anthony

 

If they said its better than those I belive its got to be a multi-engine AV. There is one enterprise AV that can integrate upto four or five AV engines and use them together for a virus scan.

Or maybe they're just conning you?

Cheers,
Firecat

 

Which AV has 4 built in scanengine?

 

The name I do not remember - But it uses 2 engines and optionally another 2

 

That would be my guess. In fact, I'd lay odds on it.

 

thats very true you would be hard pressed to beat those two for on demand scanning.

 

OK the product is called GFI DownloadSecurity and it is a SERVER-SIDE AV meant for scanning HTTP traffic...it comes with Norman and BitDefender engine and has KAV and McAfee as optional engine..

But then if they want to maintain PCs, they must have something like that...

 

But I just feel that they're conning you (@anthony1uk)

 

could i get that if i wanted to?
coz that is 4 antivirus built in 1

 

I dunno...its meant for corporate use and even if you got it its only good for scanning HTTP/FTP traffic, and I have no idea whether it can be used to scan your PC hard disk also.

 

If it's a paid service, I think you've a right to enquire as to what you are paying for!

 

Hm possibly but it really depends on how much you want to spend. Most corporate solutions like that are very expensive. Of course you could use a free alternative and run it on linux which is what I do for my mail servers. With it you can run a virtually unlimited number of virii scanners. Not that i really need them under linux but it comes in handy for the windows users out there.

 

but is there any coporate antivirus that has like 2 AV built in one

 

there are a couple but at least one of them wont be around much longer most likely. As for the other two they dont really do much better if any than kav for on demandscanning. And i'm not sure they would beat nod32 for on access scanning.

 

I agree with bellgamin here. My cousin took his computer to a computer repair shop once. The technician informed him that "all windows updates" were totally unneccesary as long as he had a firewall. He also told him that "internet explorer" was totally safe and did not need to be tweaked in any way

I believe this guy needed some business. It's always about the money isn't it?

 

He's very right

 

chaos16,

I don't think you need to look at corporate AVs, there are home AVs with multi-engine:

1)GDATA AntiVirusKit (AVK) - Uses KAV 4.x (x because I do not know) engine alongside BitDefender
2)eXtendia AVK - Uses KAV 4.x engine with RAV (now owned by MS) engine
3)F-Secure with 3 engines - KAV, Libra (uses F-prot database), Orion (basically useless)

 

can u give me a link for the best one of thoughs 3 pls

 

http://www.f-secure.com/

beware though it is known to have false positives sometimes.

 

Then why does KAV have the best detection rate then

If f-secure or others have KAAV and other antivirus built in theres

 

http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/list.shtml

here is the download page for a trial version.

 

um best detection rate does mean they dont get false positives. It just means they catch allot of whats out there.

 

chaos16,

here is the link to a free 6-month trial of F-Secure from Microsoft:

http://www.f-secure.com/protectyourpc/

I personally never tried it because I'm on dialup internet. F-Secure has false positives because of that almost useless Orion engine...I say almost useless because it helps F-Secure to give cure for new virus faster than others.

Also, I can give you link for GDATA AVK 30 day trial:

http://space.gdata.de/dl_shop/shop/avk2005e_trial.exe

This one is slightly heavy on PC resources.

 

Well since F-Secure and others have KAV engine in them they are considered as part of KAV or a 'KAV-clone' so they are generally not included in the scope of AV testing or recommendation.

 

and they are supposed to be better than KAV