Rising Antivirus 2009

According to some tests from a few chinese security forums,I have to say that the Rising's detection is not good enough.

 

I agree, but seems has features more focused to anti-trojan (Trojan Behavior Detector & Blocker, Trojan Download Blocker) "Highlights". Spyware Scan & Removal appears under "Other functions".
Just my impressions because "low cycle update", but you can be all right.

LINK: http://www.rising-global.com/products/rising-pc-doctor.html

 

+1
But when is combined with all other protection features, I'm thinking becomes a "decent" and light protection soft.

 

OK. As I promised, this is my report on Rising Antivirus installed on my cousin´s PC:

As soon as I arrived to his home, my uncle told me that the Home page (Google.com) has been changed to http://www.spuut.com

I installed PC doctor, (the free anti-spyware and anti-trojan software from Rising) did a Scan with it but found nothing.

Then I downloaded Malwarebytes and it detected a trojan in a file called win.exe in the C:\WINDOWS\ directory. Malwarebyte Anti-Malware deleted the file and also a registry entry.

Rising's heuristic and malicious behavior checker didn't detect anything as no entry about any strange behavior was registered in the log.

Now, I'm looking for a good antivirus for his Pentium III PC...

<edited to add minor details>

 

Hi,
I've asked to RISING support about your question, and this was their answer:

Rising Antivirus has "Smart Virtual Machine with Behaviour & Packing Pattern Recognition" feature. The feature with Rising Antivirus persist several Edition, is not up to date speciality.

 

Thank you Zen.


Just one question.
What do they mean when they say "is not up to date speciality."?
Being a foreign company they may mean one thing and I could be missing the intention here.
I understand Rising to say that that part of the program is not something that they dedicate much time to updating?

 

It means this feature has existed since version 2007 of Rising products and is not new to the 2009 version; nor has it been particularly enhanced (in terms of re-writes or new functions/capabilities) in the time period since it was first introduced.

 

Thats a damn shame

 

Hi,
I'm thinking it means this feature is built in every new version released, and without an user "update" action required.
Or it means, simply, this isn't a newer ("up to date") feature.

I don't know in developement terms (like Firecat said).

I'm a foreigner too, and also for me there is a little bit difficult to interprete it.

 

Thank You Zen and Firecat for clarifying that for me.
I appreciate it.

 

I've been testing RAV 2009 it works on sever so it loaded on that server OS. On about 50% desktop/laptops working find. The test desktop rig I was using for virus/worms/cloaked-malware/trojans etc.. It has found some interesting using the MBI Malicious Behavior Interceptor most of what it found is right on the time. I've tested couple of programs to see if I could recreate the strain. Sure enough the count down timer gives you a few choices or if it found a virus strain in an exe it gives you the option do you want me to remove the virus. Sure then it's clean.

For free and it's has so much stuff packed into.. Lots of updates the boot virus scanner/cleaner before you even boot to see the Starting Windows is plus. I have their Rising PC Doctor on Server OS and Client OS, more like OS Security Tools to scan for leaks in your security by letting you know what patches you can download and install. It can do it automatically. Spyware/Trojan scanner/cleaner works well it has a lot of stuff to protect the system also Trojan Downloader Blocker, Trojan Interceptor, Auto Repair OS and more . More like add on to their RAV.

I wonder how their firewall works?

 

@tipstir

What are your settings on the PC Doc? I don't want to create a conflict with RAV and PC Doc.

Thanks,
Dave

PS No matter which AV I've used, I keep coming back to RAV. Avira is on demand only in the "second opinion" mode.

 

No conflict with the two. They work together. I really haven't done anything to the PC Doctor that runs automatically fixes/cleans/patches OS, Office etc../protects/cleans for malware/spyware/trojans running when you visit sites not bad for being free and works on server/client OS.

I thought about installing the free firewall but it's RIS2009 freeware package it comes with Firewall/AV bundle. I'll test that and see how it goes on another test rig which is wireless.

 

Okay I see that the free version of RIS 2009 works with PC Doctor too like the RAV does to scan for OS vulnerabilities.. This free RIS is a trip I see a little animated avator of their lion appears down near the clock sound effects and etc.. I've exit him out. Don't need to have a dancing lion on the screen. Sounds like one of the programmers at Rising has to much time on his or her hands.

Besides all of this Rising software, I've tighten up Group Policies too and disabled showing all those software installed in All Programs. Changed the user login name to another name but it's still the same user name. Kind of hard to explain but it works. Disable the Admin account and all the rest of the pack accounts which are not needed here.

 

Can you please post a link for the free version of RIS 2009? I cant find it anywhere.

 

Here use this one.. I've tested it again and still works..
http://rsdownload.rising.com.cn/for_down/rsfree/risfree09.exe

This is the linked I had used today..

I've just updated the RIS 2009 Free. You'll need to remove RAV 2009 Free when you use RIS 2009 Free.

Testing
RIS 2009 Free on

Rig Used
Toshiba Tecra 8000 (made in 199 Mod-it by me to this below
CPU PII 266MHz (L2 512KB) / 256MB of RAM / 8MB of GPU / 40GB 7,200 RPM HDD
Windows XP Pro SP3
Wireless G Laptop
GAP - DD-WRT

 

Thank you very much..

 

Welcome...
Oh by-the-way if you only want the RFW 2009 Free (just the firewall) I don't know if it's both RFW/RAV 2009) I'll have to test that one out. But let me know if you want the link for RFW, as I just found that one on my own That's about it for now RAV 2009 Free can be found download.cnet.com

Have fun.. I must say running the entire suite RIS 2009 Free on this 11 year laptop is smooth, not sluggish with PCT FWP 3.14 was with RAV 2009 Free. I might just keep running this forever...

Just to let you know you can disable the animated Lion on started up, Net Monitor and Chinese wording in the News Status.

 

Strange on China site they have RFW with RAV integrated for 2009 but if you try to connect you get connected to the Hong Kong site which only list RAV, RIS or RFW for 2009.

Anyway there is a free RFW (Firewall) 2009, I got it loaded on this system another Wireless Laptop (N) type.. Also have RAV (Antivirus ) 2009 loaded with RPD PC Doctor 6. RIS no issues no annoying pop ups like in PCTools FWP 3.14.

 

Right now all gig systems are being scanned. This one is the test rig I had used on:

current versions

AVG Free
Avira Fee
Avira Premium + IS
Comodo IS
PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AV
PC Tools IS
A-Squared
VIPRE Rescue
VIPRE AV/Spyware
ThreatFire
PrevX Home
PrevX Business
RAV
RIS
RFW
Rising PC Doctor (this is just like PrevX and ThreatFire except it can remove the threat and also fix repairs to the OS plus download/install patches)
It's free also.. Works much better with RIS 2009...

Only AVG Free found these files but only it could move them to the vault. Where as RAV and RIS was able to clean the virus and these two cause about 50% on my other HDDs in the system as it spreads like a worm on a head case. 7% for a total of 57 two were trojan.bat those got deleted. The extra 5 were strains of worm.mar g something like that. PrevX H/B found them but kept on crashing.. Avira didn't find these. These are the ones and produce more cloaked-malware.

linkinfo.dll
IsDrv118.sys

I am still testing the scan results from the main server that's going to take longer to do.. Should be done by tonight?

 

My main server OS is still going at it.. with RAV 2009 Free found 26 viruses all types It's 3 hrs just completed first two HDDs just one more HDD to go very huge chuck full of files..

Prior to this PC Doctor found 57 OS patches for Server it repair (download/install) them all. Then started RAV 2009 Free on all drive SCAN, memory an etc..

 

Wow! Badly infected drives not the main one the other drives it's been 6 hrs still found 17 sub and 34 viruses. Now really good to know as it detect the threat it cleans the file or deletes it after it determines what type of threat it is or not. Most are zip some software I had created but it's okay for it to remove them. As the compiler used could have been infected years ago. Over 2 million files scanned so far..

 

from your test do you think is has a good detection rate?

 

Funny, Rising doesn't even feature in av-comparatives latest report, last time it was tested, it didnt' do too good.

 

I try not to follow the norm, as when I do they don't work as good as they are advertised all over the net. So let's say Rising who been around since 1998 has discovered to solve the mysteries of these pest. I waiting to see how the Server drives turn out..