A New Player:- Preventon AntiVirus

At least the free version does not use any engine from Sophos, instead the enigine in Preventon Antivirus is Virusbuster.

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Latest database

Preventon	Definitions date 2009-12-31 Definitions version: 10.118.15
Virusbuster   	Released:        2009/12/31 Version: 		 10.118.15


known malware				Sophos			Preventon		Virusbuster

d5bb11361cdf0597aa6543f6c94528b6	Mal/Generic-A		TrojanSpy.Zbot.RZJ  	TrojanSpy.Zbot.RZJ
1d8c584d30fa3c6029f9f57ad8e732f9	Mal/Generic-A		Worm.Koobface.CKB	Worm.Koobface.CKB
d8b4275c995ab8a963bb86ec03a25ba3	Sus/Dload-D		Trojan.DR.Small.CUTR	Trojan.DR.Small.CUTR
d10d3afc080c32c09a2621eee3bd49b6	Mal/Generic-A		Packed/NTkrnl		Packed/NTkrnl

 

ahhh no Sophos engine , had not started testing yet, thx

 

Yeah, no Sophos...that's a real bummer

 

Why does Preventon state on their website that their product is using Sophos? Really odd.
Link: http://www.preventon.com/05site/pdf/antivirus.pdf

 

They might not have bothered to change or give proper information. You can even check their OS requirements it says that it is only compatible upto windows XP but it works on Win 7 also Edwin024 has tried to run AV on Win 7

 

Probably they have not updated their website...But still it good to see that they have passed VB100 for Windows 7. But i still believe that VB100 is not the updated benchmark to trust a AV solution. They are still based on On Demand Scanning Tech. for In the Wild Viruses..Whereas now a days an AV should have HIPS and Other technology to stop nasty viruses before getting or executing in the system.

 

Noticed there's a new version available today (4.1.65 free) on Softpedia, in case
anyone's interested.

 

Thanks for the update, will try and test it soon.

 

Strange thing happened though, went to Preventon's website(to look for more
info etc), tried to return to their homepage, and was re-directed to ptlmarketing, which is linked to Preventon. Checked ptlmarketing with Siteadvisor(not much) and then WOT and it gives a dodgy rating(attached).
Really didn't like the unwanted re-direction.Suspicious?

 

Nothing happened with me...No Re-Direct nothing, could you please tell me where you clicked?

 

Okay now i got that...When you click on e-shop and Newsletter option you will be re-directed to http://www.ptlmarketing.co.uk/corpsite/eshop.php, but the suspicious thing is that you won't even notice this re-direction...Strange

 

Yes, thanks. I was just looking at products etc and then selected part on LH
side with info about company etc, and I think it happened when I then returned
to homepage via option top left of page if I'm not mistaken.

 

I will shoot a mail to the support team of preventon, lets see what will they reply..

 

I received an email from Prevention a few weeks ago and they stated the free version uses VirusBuster. They did not specify, but it seemed they insinuated the paid version may use a different engine? Maybe just the paid version uses sophos?

 

Okay, but you know virusbuster engine is also good enough and used by many AV's like a-squared and PC-Tools....But PC Tools modified/formulated the core engine according to their need..

 

Thanks, AvinashR, good idea. This really shouldn't be happening.

 

some months ago this AV use Sophos engine, now it is 100% virusbuster engine.

 

A-Squared uses the Ikarus engine not Virusbuster.

 

Oh yeah...my mistake.

 

is this twin brother:

http://www.digital-defender.com/screenshots

 

New version is "OUT"

Preventon Antivirus 4.1.65

Homepage:-
http://www.preventon.com/

 

Some screenshots (Taken from Softpedia)

 

Other left screen shot:-

 

so it my understanding that this AV doesnt use sophos but virusbuster?

how good is that?

 

I have tested it quite way back. It performed good...

But failed to block TDSS rootkits.