Zillya! Antivirus 1.1 - world wide release

At that's moment we have no so big history, for telling about per-year versions

More seriously: we do not set out to produce a new version every time. The product exists the possibility of updating software modules. As bug fixes, minor functional additions, will release new builds and product updates (the program will offer to download and install them).

Now we are planning to start developing a product class "Internet Security" (Antivirus + simple firewall)

 

You haven't clarified yet...Can you please let all of know which/whose AV technology you are using in your product...In plain simple words whose AV engine u are using in your software? Is it in-house technology or the leased one?

 

It's product based on our own antivirus engine. This engine have some methods of detecting malware:
- signature detecting;
- algorithmic analyzer of files (algorithmic virus-records)
- reactive heuristic analyzer

Antivirus have realtime file-monitor (minifilter driver technology), and also realtime mail-monitor (hooking and parsing POP3 and SMTP traffic).

P.S. searching partners for licensing our AVEngine

 

That's great. There are many vendor in India who can take your help. Do some search you will definitely get one...

 

So, no other tests ?

 

Will gonna test your AV soon..I Hope it will perform better.

 

I want to test this software. I will be doing it on malware samples from friend Polish forum, Malware Domain List and other. I post results afters few days.

 

Piece of s.... I installed it and make restart. After reboot i see only my wallpaper, in processes i have this antivirus. When I try: New Task and I type explorer.exe I have comunicat like this: you need to have administrator rights ( something like that) And my question is how to delete, repair this situation?

In emergency mode I cant delete this, uninstaller dont work. And i dont have restore system point . I dont wanna make stupid format, u need to help me.

 

I don´t get it, what can Zillya! Antivirus offer me that other well established AV´s like Avira, Avast etc. can´t offer me? Why even try to startup a new AV company, it´s pointless if you ask me.

 

Let me try to answer that question from a generic perspective, since the answers can apply to many other products:

• Geographic localization. Having native language support can be important. A translated manual or help file doesn't always fulfill the objective. This really depends on the country and it's local situation.
• While malware is all around us, there seems to remain a high level of language and geographic localization as well. The mix of threats encountered is not the same all over the net, nor are the set of sites that everyone in a given locale visits the same all around the world. Sure, lots of us pull content from around the world, but a large amount is likely locally derived or presented. That localizes the threat.
• Perhaps you have a better way of doing the same thing as the major player, or customize to specific performance attributes, usage style, and so on. The market will determine what rises and falls. What's changed over the past decade or so is reach - face it, once I set up a website to serve my local neighborhood, there is inconsequential incremental cost to provide reach to the remainder of the planet. Yes, there will be a traffic cost at some point if the site generates interest, but that's a measure of success. Think of some of the examples you see in this forum - DefenseWall, ShadowDefender. From a commercial enterprise perspective, the capital barriers to entry are extremely modest, so why not?
• and so on....

On the other hand, you're right. This market segment (actually the whole PC security application segment) is extremely crowded and rather mature to boot. That's a commercially difficult combination to deal with and succeed.

Blue

 

Blue,

Any indication on CPU usage (total seconds) and I/O (read write KB)

Thx

 

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  Yep,
  
  Those two reenforce each other, when the language is very specific (e.g. own character set like Cyrrilic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet ) and penetration of English is low, native language is a selling point. The content (native russion, ukraine) on the web is also geographical bound, which makes traffic and malware circulation also very specific (blue's reason 2).
  
  A third reason might be the available infrastructure, when air time is expensive for example, malware spread through mail is relatively higher than in regions where air time is cheap.
  
  As blue explains this localises the threats also, making local AV's possibly more effective than global ones.
  
  Regards

 

See below. 12 hours up time with a couple of hours of active surfing. Key processes are highlighted (by the way, ignore the CPU spike - I have 15 tabs open on Firefox and some are very active at the moment).



Overall, it seems a decent effort. Cost is modest. No idea on what the detailed detection performance profile looks like. Haven't noted into any compatibility show stoppers.

Blue

 

On I/O counters of system we see so big values, because Windows counts also operations with Pipe (which we use for some communications). These operations do not load disk-based, but takes into account the system as I/O.

 

I'm liking Zillya so far.

The pros:

It can prompt you what action to take when a virus if found. This is good because I never want antivirus software to delete or quarantine anything without asking me first. A number of antivirus do not have the option to be prompted what to do, giving you a choice in their setup to either automatically cure viruses found, or block access to infected files. And those programs stay installed on computer for no more than five minutes.

There is an option to exclude found viruses from future scans. This is particularly welcome as Zillya at the moment has problems with false positives.

So far it seems to be very light on system resources - I'm not really noticing any slowdown on my Windows 7 computer. If I had I would have already uninstalled it.

The price is very reasonable at $19.95 US, which I'm guessing is for 1 year as the website doesn't state this.


The cons:
Gives too many false positives. This is something that really needs improvement.

The software is not very configurable. One noticeable omission is the ability to select which file extensions are scanned.

Slow scan times. I tried to improve this by scanning only for exe files just to do a very quick scan of some folders - however there is no option to select the file extensions to be scanned. In general slow scan times aren't too much of an issue for me as I never do a full system scan with antivirus software. But for some people it will be an issue.


All in all a decent effort for fairly new program. If forthcoming releases fix the problems with false positives and make the program more configurable I would consider purchasing.

 

After spending more time trialing Zillya, on the whole I remain impressed.

I am still finding it to be very light on system resources, and am also not noticing any slowdown when it does its automatic definition updates.

However the are just two points of concern I found:

Firstly, when doing a scan, it scans every file found - it is not selective about which extensions scanned. During a scan it started to scan a very large .VOB file from a DVD. A time consuming process which I aborted, and also an unnecessary process - I see no need to scan VOB files - particularity so when they are often several gigabytes in size.

Fortunately this is something which could be fixed very easily.

Secondly, I scanned a file infected by Virut, which I consider to be a fairly common infection - and it was not detected.

I am going to see if I can find a decent collection of malware to test Zillya against. Not so much to test the detection rate, but to see how it fares at disinfecting files, e.g. see if it can disinfect files which can be disinfected by other antivirus software or weather it only can delete the file - and not simply remove the infected part.

 

I have found a video review here of it. Made by Languy99.

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0uKauanYxQ-

 

Has anyone done the basics, for starter simple fuzzing test...

(edit : I'm not really in a position to do a test myself.)

 

Version 1.1.2611.0 released.
- Some fixes at GUI;
- Fixed error an updates on slow and bad connections to Internet;
- Some FP fixed;

Nearest days will be accessible French localisation of the product.

 

Hello,

Regarding future versions in different languages, I'd advise to go for the most spoken languages. I don't think I'm wrong saying it, but I believe that French isn't a language spoken by that many people.

A great translation will demand professional translators. As others have said, and as you may well know, it is very important for the user to understand what is written. Sometimes, I have a huge difficulty reading poorly translated programs, texts, etc to my language. I rather use and read in English.

That said, my approach would be, in no specific order: Chinese, Portuguese (European, standard), Spanish, French. These should be the first languages that you guys should translate your antivirus to.

Be cautious with the Portuguese language. There's quite a difference between Portuguese (European/Standard) from Portuguese spoken in Brazil. So, if deciding to translate to Portuguese, to also achieve a bigger market in Europe, then I would advise you to go for the European Portuguese language.

Unlike British English and American English, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese have way too many differences. It would be a suicide just to translate to one. But, considering that you will most probably start by Europe (except English), then the European Portuguese would be the choice.

 

Yes, you are right.
So, on official site at Download page now available French localisation of Zillya!
What do you think about translation quality?

 

someone said French is a language spoken by not too many people?
more than 60 million french speakers live in France only. Belgium Switzerland Canada some countries in Africa and so on make up more than 100 million speakers worldwide so figure it out people....

 

You're right. I don't know why, but I made confusion with Italian.

I ought to know, for I have a French friend!

 

Zillya! Antivirus 1.1.2662.0 "Released"

Download (English):- Here

Download (French):- Here

 

Zillya! Antivirus 1.1.2781.0 "Updated"