I'm aware that talking of Emsisoft if off-topic, but I think I never had a single FP since they switch from Ikarus to Bitdefender, already a while ago.
my FPs complaint wasn't generatd by the BD Engine, it' by their behavioral detection, to me that acts like a virus because it stops me from performing what I do daily like playing movies with SVP (Smooth Video Project), even if they whitelist it, the moment it autoupdates and its detected as a virus again. because the way it works is to inject code into MPC-HC to achieve 60 FPS playback. That's just one example out of the 10s of other apps it detects like my VPN and others
You still don't understand the difference between FPs that are caused by AV module and behavior blocker alerts.
Not sure what version is downloaded from the Avetix website, my link was sent to me by e-mail. I did Google Avetix 3.4.3 and did find this link to Neowin. It does say version 3.4.3 but you know how that goes?? http://www.neowin.net/news/avetix-antivirus-free-343
Yes it is 3.4.3 the same as the version on Avetix's website. This time when I installed it, it is showing as version 3.4.3.
It did auto update this morning so that function appears to be working now for me...first time. I did a quick scan yesterday..notso quick, it took 17 minutes to scan my small 40 GB hard drive barely 1/4 full. I will try again in a few days maybe the first scan takes longer.
This was my earlier observation. I went back to Avetix again. I now see that the definitions getting updated almost every hour!
I think you're being mislead. You will get a popup window saying Avetix has been updated every hour when it checks for updates, regardless of whether any updates have been downloaded or not. If you look at the log file section and check the updates, you will see how often per day Avetix actually updates, which is probably still around three times a day.
It doesn t detect some simple files as Eicar test files. Nice interface but it seems it is not doing the main purpose like detecting stuff
Both in my case.It does not react to downloading and after scan it s declared as clean in any of the forms you find on the site. Of course it is clean in reality ,but ...
How current BD sigs/defs are can be determined and can verify the user interface and logging by finding the update.txt file, normally in a folder named plugins, among the ~900 files in there and comparing it to BD's online one at http://download.bitdefender.com/updates/bitdefender_v9/plugins/update.txt Update time: Wed Oct 22 03:09:45 2014 Signature number: 5159086 Update time GMT: 1413936585 Version: 7.57335 The version numbers count up one by one, so if yours is 7.57325 and BD's is 7.57335, you're behind by 10. Not good. As to how many times a day the files are updated, not checked for, is up to you to determine by monitoring update.txt. Which means checking it several times a day. I watch my Ad-Aware plugins folder update typically 10-20 times a day (sometimes more, sometimes less) based on an update check every hour. Cheers.
I just installed Avetix again, and it still won't complete the updates, so I removed again. I couldn't be bothered getting in touch with Avetix's support to get them try and diagnose my problem, but I will probably try it again once a new version has been released.
I also uninstalled. It was updating OK for me but the avtrt.exe file, I think that was the one, was using way too much memory constantly. Even if I exited Avetix the memory usage was there, something like 174,000k. Compared to most anti-virus probably 4 or 5 times as much.
Unless you don't have enough RAM installed on your computer, than RAM usage by security software does not matter, and is not an indication of performance. Some of the other antivurses which seem to be using a lot less memory actually won't be. They will be reguarly flushing the RAM they have occupied but are not currently using, to the page file. Doing so makes it look like the antivirus is using little RAM, but will reduce performance due to the time taken to move data to the page file and then move it back into RAM when it is needed again. In the case of Aveitx, it is one of the absolute lightest antiviruses I've ever used (and I trial lots of different antiviruses and on my aging laptop they are just about all too heavy for my liking), and the impact on my system was barely noticable.
After install there is a big update 160 megs or so ,on one machine looked to be failing in updating ,but after a restart it worked.On another one it installed fine the updates.Issues maybe related to the firewall settings for it s exes. It s light on a AMD A75 chipset based machine ,8gigs of RAM and a FM2 5300 APU (dual core 3,6Ghz Turbo),no memory leaks (PC stayed on for days with no issues) ,but i have no idea if it detects anything as the test files are not detected .
1. Is this worth recommending to the average user in it's current state? 2. Does it only require entering your email address to get the free AV? 3. Is there any time limit on it being free? 4. Has anyone found out more about the company behind it? 5. How does it compare to the major free AVs? Sorry if some of these have been answered, I just don't want to read through 100+ comments.
1. I would say no, becuase of the update issues some people such as myself have been experiencing. 2. No. Avetix require you to eneter your email address to get the download link on their website, but you can download it from Softpedia where no email address is required. No email address is required to use Avetix. 3. There's no time limit. 4. I currently don't have the resources to test its detection rates, so can't comment on that. But, it does use Bitdefenders scan engine, so should do okay in theory. It is lighter than just about every other antivirus.
I'm running Avetix again, and I have found what seems to be a partial solution to the update issue. After installing Avetix, if you open the GIU, it will say that the databases need to be updated. At which point you can either click to manually get Avetix to check and download the inital update or simply do nothing and before long Avetix will do an auto update anyway. After this update is downloaded and installed, Avetix will still say it needs to download updates. At this point, don't do anything, and in time Avetix will finish updating. At some point, the Avetix systemtray will dissapear while some updates are being installed, but it will eventually return.
Avetix have just released version 5.0.0 of their Antivirus, with a brand new user interface. Once again, there is a free version, and a paid Pro version. It is still using Bitdefender's scan engine. The free version checks for updates every 6 hours, and in the Pro version you can increase the frequency if you want. You can download it from the Avetix website. Because this version is so new, there is no information about it on Avetix's website, or anywhere else on the internet. Here are screenshots of the new version. There is a tutorial which gives a basic overview of Avetix. An important addition to the real time protection settings is file caching to prevent previously scanned files from being rescanned. This is disabled by default. The tools screen, shows the features which are available in the Pro version. I've only just installed the new version and have not used it yet, as I'm waiting it for it to download the Bitdefender definitions. The installer includes no definitions, and my internet is heavily throttled making it extremely slow, so the download will take a long time. At least, this time I'm fairly confident that definitions will download successfully, unlike in the previous releases which often would not complete the definitions download.
There is a popup which encourages you to upgrade to the Pro version. I'm not sure yet, how often it appears. But, I can live with that, in return for a free antivirus.
I have uninstalled the new version of Avetix, as it was causing a noticable slowdown, and also threats could only be inore manually. I found the old version to be much lighter. However it may be just an issue with running in on Windows 10, that was making causing the problem.
When you talk about ignoring threats manually, you mean this: I think is still working, at least on Windows 8. And here's the memory usage on Windows 8:
