Iobit is back with a new product

Discussion in 'other anti-malware software' started by Ibrad, Apr 11, 2010.

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  1. jmonge

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    iobit dont know:D
     
  2. Noob

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    Just tried Iobit Advanced System Care Pro LOL
    Kinda like it man :D
     
  3. raven211

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    He's joined da Dark side. D: They got him with their cookies... :O
     
  4. Noob

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    Hahahahahaha, Advanced System Care Pro was awesome, but uninstalled it today :D
     
  5. Matthijs5nl

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    The funny thing is that Iobit indeed actually makes 2 good products: Smart Defrag and Advanced SystemCare: there is just really nothing wrong with those programs

    Although I just use Piriform: CCleaner and Defraggler.
     
  6. raven211

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    One software to take on all of them together; TuneUp Utilities. :D


    @Noob: If something is awesome, you don't uninstall it! AHA! :D :p
     
  7. Matthijs5nl

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    True, I tried several versions of TuneUp and it is a really nice program.

    But:
    1. once it removed a "empty" shortcut, but that wasn't really empty, because of that I lost the shortcut icon and I couldn't retrieve it.
    2. I like the company Piriform, the simplicity of their products. TuneUp ain't bloated, but it has a lot of different features which are also in CCleaner but than in that really nice simple way.
    3. TuneUp is a not free, and I don't like getting a serial from the internet and get a message every month my serial was blocked. I don't like hacking paid software anyway (only Microsoft Office ofc, but they deserve it with that prices).
    4. Most of all, I don't like products which automatically optimize my pc. Had a terrible experience with IOLO System Mechanic.
     
  8. raven211

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    For those that I can reply on (cause there's nothing to say on others):


    1. Never experienced, maybe I never will either.

    2. True that, but I see nothing "wrong" in TU whereas CC has some default settings which I don't like. Hence I would prefer TU over CC in that case anyway.

    4. You can turn this off and don't even compare TU with the likes of iolo. ^^
     
  9. Noob

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    It was really good, but i uninstalled it to try Advanced System Optimizer
    (LOL have nothing to do, so decided to give these utilities software a "try")

    Ended up uninstalling it too, not bad but not free either :D (With this i mean, i just can't afford a license of those so i'll stick with CCleaner in the meantime) and lurking any giveaways of these hahahahaha
     
  10. raven211

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    SystemCare Pro does have many things it optimizes. Thing is, it's TOO MANY things. :D I'll check out Advanced System Optimizer is as I can't recall completely.
     
  11. CiX

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    Please read THIS from Iobit forum :eek: I think "Iobit Malware fighter" is beta version of iobit security 360 :cautious:
     
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  12. whitedragon551

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    I read that real quick. They dont want to call it IOBIt Anti-Malware because its to much like MBAM, but then they have the option of IOBit Malware Defender. IOBit will never learn.
     
  13. jmonge

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    are they including MD to it's engine?
     
  14. whitedragon551

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    I dont think so. It was just one of the beta names they voted on as well.
     
  15. jmonge

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    ah i see:cool:
     
  16. raven211

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    I look at it like this... what they've done is ***, but if this means they change the technology completely and it's actually working good, I don't dwell in the past. If something bad happens to yourself personally in real life, and you dwell in that, you'll only be "that guy". Move on is my philosophy.
     
  17. Zombini

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    There are a lots of thieves in the security world. You know who the leaders are when it comes to innovative features, innovative UI etc. History is a good teacher.

    Companies like Symantec spent million testing out new user-interface concepts on user-groups, UI specialists etc., and then other companies just rip them off.

    Take a look at http://nortonrocks.blogspot.com/2009/11/norton-360s-new-user-interface-stolen.html

    And http://nortonrocks.blogspot.com/2009/11/gdata-rips-off-cpu-meter-from-norton.html

    And http://nortonrocks.blogspot.com/2009/11/norton-invents-fix-it-button.html

    And http://nortonrocks.blogspot.com/2009/11/norton-invents-greenyellowred-moniker.html

    And most importantly http://nortonrocks.blogspot.com/2009/11/who-really-invented-internet-security.html

    The list is endless.
     
  18. BoerenkoolMetWorst

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    What a Norton fanboy blogger, he writes whole blogs about how MBAM missed a detection and the 'almighty' Norton didn't. He doesn't know what is talking about either, for instance take the blog about the internet security name:
    "At that time, upstarts like Kaspersky, AVIRA, Avast, GData, AWIL, Rising were not even an egg, let alone being born."

    Apparently he presumes that Avast and Alwil are two different products and all those brands he mentioned were born before 1999, some even already in the eighties..
     
  19. bellgamin

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    The line between "fanboy" & "shill" is growing dimmer in this particular thread, wot?
     
  20. Narxis

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    omg.... my fanboy-o-meter is just exploded...:'(
     
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  22. Noob

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    LOL, that blog probably is from Symantec marketing department :D
     
  23. firzen771

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    wow so with the red yellow and green post on that norton blog, does that mean norton copied ther idea from traffic lights? no, its just common sense and things that are part of normal life. Its just general knowledge of what those colours mean, same with the "fix it" button, its common sense to have a button that says fix it, how many variations on that meaning culd u possibly make to use as the button?

    only one i can half give norton cred out of those posts is the first one about the 360 interface.

    o ye and the CPU meter one is also quite rediculous, are u telling me that Norton copied windows task manager as well then since that one came before norton, the graphs arent even similar in gdata to the norton one. its completely rediculous.
     
  24. bellgamin

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    I gave IOBit Security 360 a trial. IOBS needs no restart during installation, so I was able to trial it using Shadow Defender.

    It uses ~18MB ram & a teeny bit of cpu. It *feels* really really light when surfing & exercising my computer with other heavy stuff. It played nicely with OnlineArmor & Prevx. Very friendly GUI.

    After a while I loaded Spyshelter (SS) to real-time for a while. IOBS stayed rock steady. Interestingly enough, SS reported that IOBS tried to take a screenshot. I blocked it. FP or..... ?

    If someone here has a database of malware, I request you to PLEASE test IOBS. I really am interested to see whether it is actually any good at detection/protection. If it is, it's a fairly nice freebie.

    Yeah, I know about the company's checkered history. All I can say is: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." :blink:
     
  25. Kees1958

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    I do not feel like testing anymore, since MBAM incident, but I tested the old version

    Realtime zero threat
    - checks on startups
    - checks unusual registry manipulations (using default microsoft utilities, but a lot of anti-spyware applications tend to forget about these methods and some HIPS also did not take into account: OA for instance protected against these methods while CyberHawk forgot to protect registry against it in the past)
    - checks on service processes registration
    - checks on origin (trusted vendor, signed executable and blacklisted ones)

    Real time blacklist
    - looked a lot like :gack: in the past

    Considering you are allready using OA, only the blacklist could add something to your setup

    Regards Kees
     
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