Ashampoo Antivirus 2014 (emsisoft + bitdefender)

i feel this a little bit heavy, i have a process always using 230mb ram...beside that is a good soft

 

It is running pretty light on my Toshiba laptop with Win7 ultimate.

 

Up to Ver. 1.0.7 and it performs as well as any av that I have used over several decades of av testing. Runs very very light and updates several times a day. Overall it seems to be a dependable and secure software.

 

I hope you realise that using that much RAM by itself does not make it heavy. Excessive CPU or disk use are what make an AV heavy. When I tested it, I found it to be fairly light.

 

i know that

i have some episodes of excessive cpu and disk usage, too, on 2 diferent pc...

without that is a good soft

 

I had the same experience too on occasion. But, it still seems to be on of the lightest AVs there is at the moment.

 

I ran Ashampoo Anti-Malware 1.21 a while back on my XP systems and always found it to be reliable and problem-free. As I moved to new systems and Win7x64, I felt AAM not having been updated in years was no longer viable. I ran with Emsisoft AM 6 but v7 kept locking up my tower and their support was unable to rectify the issue. I pulled it from both systems and went with BullGuard until for reasons beyond the scope of this posting, I switched to the "it just works" Avast Free. Then Ashampoo Anti-Virus came out; after the 40 day trial I bought two licenses.

From an email I sent support, I learned the update check occurs every two hours beginning when the app starts. During the trial, every time I checked, the sigs/defs match BD & Emsi's latest. It's worthy to mention the engines remain current, too (bdcore.dll and a2engine.dll).

Also in an email, I confirmed Emsisoft data is used for Web filtering which explains the ridiculous levels for false blocks (which is why I had it disabled when I ran EAM). So I disabled "Web protection (sites known to distribute malware)" in AAV settings while leaving the one for phishing sites enabled - no problems since. I'll leave it to MBAM Pro and the DNS-BH blocklist for the malware layer.

AAV's behavior blocker is highly configurable, BTW.

Support has also assured me we'll eventually be able to populate the whitelist manually.

But, it's too bad they didn't go with Bitdefender's filtering.

This is a fine AV and as to the light/heavy thing, see my signature.

Cheers.

 

Ashampoo has their "name the price" sale going on. Seems the lowest they accept for the AV is $12 from what I can tell.

 

That looks about right. I got the following in an email from them on Tuesday.

1 year of protection only $19.99

2 years of protection only $29.99

3 years of protection only $34.99

They are also running a promotion "select 4 for US$ 20" for anyone interested in their media, photo or utilities software.

-hxxps://www.ashampoo.com/en/USD/bsc-

 

I am trialling Ashampoo AV 2014 and have found that it does NOT detect and remove wedownload spyware.

Also got no response from Ashampoo support but could be the time of year I guess

 

The Bitdefender definitions version currently on my systems is 7.53479 which updated Mar 4 at 01:12 UTC.
As of right now, Mar 4 19:30 UTC, the Bitdefender definitions version is 7.53488.
Update time: Tue Mar 4 16:23:23 2014
Signature number: 10654702
Update time GMT: 1393943003
Version: 7.53488
Both my systems are still at 7.53479.
The every-two-hours updates process is reporting "no updates available."

(I know that's only documenting BD, but Emsi sigs aren't updating and are surely lagging as well.)

Obviously this effects the efficacy of the BD and Emsi AV engines. Since it's release last year, the sigs have updated several times a day as one would expect per the Bitdefender and Emsisoft release models.

AAV users here please check your Log files and have you noticed that as of Feb 27, the sig updates have been occurring only once a day at about 01:00 UTC?

I have emailed support to see if their policy has changed from as-available to every 24 hours. I am currently trying to get passed some clueless Ashampoo support person who thinks I need to uninstall/reinstall on both my systems.

 

I convinced the support person a "licensing issue" could not be cause of the same issue on two systems with different licenses and my ticket was forwarded to the developers.

I was hoping yesterday's product update from 1.0.7 to .8 might be the fix, but it's not. Right now the BD sig version on my systems is 7.53489 while the current BD is 7.53497 with the sig update process reporting "No updates available."

 

Can someone ask support how many computers is one license good for?

 

If it doesnt says anything then i guess its for a single PC.

 

Ashampoo was never able to tell me if they abandoned Bitdfender and Emsisoft as-released updates and went to every 24-hours - an activity that suddenly changed after five months of use.

After almost two weeks of waiting on an answer to that, they apologized for not being able to offer a timely reply.

I found that unacceptable being a simple did-you? or didn't you? and asked for my money back. They refunded the full price, to their credit.

I've always had high regards for their AM/AV apps but I think now I realize they are not a security company.

I'm now running Lavasoft Personal Security.

Cheers.

 

Please do not delete this post. I know I could probably send a private PM but I wanted other members here to know just how special one of our resident experts is. Plus I do pose a question that is related to this thread. Thank you.

bigc73542, I have immense respect for your opinion on all things security related. I joined Wilders 11 years ago but due to serious health issues I did not come back to Wilders until mid 2013. I was diagnosed with bladder Cancer in 2001 and then a year and eight months later I was in a horrible car accident with three other people. One of those people was a girl I was engaged to be married to a couple of weeks down the road. The other two were friends who had been married just one year. One night a drunk driver going the wrong way on California State Route 91 and hit us head on at 60 MPH. I was the only one to survive in the car I was in. The drunk driver in the other car survived, too. Ain't life grand? I have been confined to a wheelchair ever since so I could not be active in this forum the way I wanted to be. Since late last year by some miracle I regained partial control of my left arm. My doctors told me they have never seen anything like it. Anyway, sorry for the essay but I wanted you and the many other forum members to know how you affected my life since that day in 2003. Even though you were also a newish member at the time, your experience and knowledge were far beyond my own.

You were the first person here at Wilders that answered questions I had about F-Protect. I had additional questions on top of that. You were kind and incredibly helpful in your repeated responses. You taught me that being knowledgeable is not the only thing that is important here at Wilders. I could see that you were a true gentleman who didn't treat noobs like yuk on the bottom of a shoe. Your example drove me into going back to school and becoming a Network Architect. For a while I did not see you posting here but then last week I saw you had made a few posts.

So thank you for everything. My life could have slipped into an even worse state but because of your example I found motivation to do something with my life working in the IT field. Personally, I would love to know if I ever made such a positive impact on someones life but usually we never know. You might find it tough to believe you made any difference at all but you did. For someone so distraught and without direction as I was, your kindness and insight helped steer me away from complete negativity. Seeing your recent activity on the forum convinced me that it was about time to let you know what happened and to say thank you.

Now to my questions. Is there any advantage to running Ashampoo Antivirus as opposed to using Emsisoft Antimalware. I was under the impression that Ashampoo was just a re-branding of EAM. Am I wrong about that and if there are any differences, just what are they? If there is no difference then why run Ashampoo at all? Also, does one consume less system resources than the other? I have an EAM license with almost three months left on it so I was going to install that on a new PC I bought three weeks ago. Thanks again for everything.

 

Hope the miracles of recovery continue.

I trust EAM & the company behind it 100x more than Ashampoo.

 

Thank you for all that you have said. It makes me believe that maybe I have made a contribution here after all. Concerning your question, I would go with EAM simply due to the fact that their support is miles beyond Ashampoos. I believe that Ashampoo antivirus is a decent product but being able to receive timely support if needed is a very important aspect of any software especially security software.

 

If you like EAM, continue with it. PC Mag's review indicates Ashampoo actually does a bit worse than EAM itself. Remember, Ashampoo is simply not a security company, they make products for the "set it and forget it" crowd.

Yeah, that's the thing basically. They give you a good, easy to use app for cheap but it's really only meant for beginner users .

 

Thank you for the input bigc73542. I have a third PC that I would love to run EAM on and with 16GB of RAM and a SSD I would be very surprised it I see any slowdown issues at boot or a hogging of system resources. As far as making a contribution here I don't believe that has ever been in doubt. What people do not usually think about is the impact of words and how something (good or bad) said to an individual can have an effect on that person in a way we never dreamed of. Maybe its just a little thing like "Hey, you look great today" to a fellow employee at work. Their day could have been awful up to that point but those few complimentary words turned that persons day around. Or like in your case a few words combined with patience and generosity to a guy who was not in the best frame of mind and what did it cost you? That's right, not a cent! I'm not someone who looks for meaning in every little thing that happens in life but I have to believe that seemingly meaningless bit of back and forth between us was exactly what I needed at that moment, which I used to pull myself out of wallowing in self pity. So for the last time before I start making myself and other forum members sick to their stomachs, thank you bigc73542! You do make a lasting contribution here just by the decent way you treat other members when answering a question or when giving your input on something no matter the topic.

Thanks Firecat! That is a great point about Ashampoo. A company that makes a huge variety of computer software makes me a bit nervous when they jump into security. I'm not saying it's not possible for a company like that to produce a good security product, but even if all things are equal, why mess around when you can use the product made by a company that specializes in security software. Especially when Emsisoft has continually improved EAM to the point where it's really started to be recognized for its excellence by many of the independent labs. Thanks for the assistance.

 

For three days, Shareware On Sale is giving away Ashampoo Anti-Virus 2014. You can get the deal here.

 

Thanks! I'm going to take it for a spin.

 

if anyone has already participate in an older giveaway ,dont bother to try this one.The key gives the message "protection has expired,please renew license".

 

Just use the new key supplied and it will activate and give you the six month unrestricted license. Just did it, worked great. and I did participate in the last giveaway.

 

Wow! One of the services using 512meg. Program in total about 520meg on my machine.