Steganos Antivirus

I found this Steganos AV while searching for encryption software.This AV use KAV scanning engine which interest me and cost only Euro $25 slighty cheaper than others.

http://www.steganos.com/en/sav/index.htm

 

Steganos AV is the German AVK (properly without the second RAV engine) as it looks to me.

wizard

 

A much more 'pretty' interface than KAV, a characteristic of all the KAV clones and easier for newbies to use.

Would obviously have the excellent virus/detection abilities of KAV but would be of interest as to whether it is as demanding on system resources as Kaspersky.

The ease of use and the appearance of the main GUI is something that Kaspersky have taken note of and the screen shots of the new KAV 5 seem very promising in this respect. One comment I have seen is that the new version 'looks a little like NAV'. And Norton does have an easy to use interface.

At the present time, Steganos AV could be considered a slightly cheaper, easier to use and understand KAV clone.

 

Looks nice.
Being a KAV clone, i asume its a very good AV.
Anyone tried or testet it.??
Theres no trail version as far as i can see.

 

Is correct, original Steganos statement about a trial-version:

"For now we don´t offer an evaluation copy of Steganos Anti Virus, sorry."

I'm sorry too!

Ciao,

Smokey

 

Hi, I've used this anti-virus for a little while now and it's pretty stable on my system with Nod being the resident scanner and BoClean being the AT. I mainly use it to scan my system every week or so and to scan downloaded files from the net.

As far as load on the system, I have found that using Nod as resident and Steganos as backup is lighter than the other way around, but not by very much though.

I've thrown a few virus and trojans that I've managed to download and Steganos caught them all, so I would not be hesitant to recommend it as either a backup anti-virus or as full time resident.

Hope you all don't mind, I've posted a few screenshots.

 

Here's another one.

 

I promise, last one.

 

THX for the screenies PikeDude.
Regards Ole

 

That's strange: Compared to the original AVK the update button for Software updates is missing. Looks like with Steganos you can't update the software.

wizard

 

Hi wizard, you can manually update it, all you have to do is click on the Virus Update (second image) under the Internet Update section and then click on Start at the bottom right. It will then verify if an update is available or you have the latest updates.

 

Thanks for showing us what Steganos looks like Pikedude.

How often are updates available?

 

Hi the Tester, on program installation, the updater is set to check for updates by default, once a week, but I changed it to daily. I usually see updates available every couple of days. There have been more updates in the last few weeks though, almost daily.

 

I am not talking about signature updates here. I am talking about product updates. Please have a look at the attached screenshot of the original AVK and you will find out what I mean.

wizard

 

Hmm.

Extendia AVK(the non-pro version)doesn't have the software update button either.

I didn't know that other versions of AVK had that button.

Maybe that's why the version I bought was so cheap?

 

Hey wizard, thanks for the info, after reading your post and seeing your screenshot, I wrote to the support at Steganos and am currently waiting for a reply. Hopefully their updater verifies for both the virus definitions and for program updates. I will post there reply here once I get it.

 

Hi All,

Well, I received my response from Steganos and they said that the updates are for the virus definitions only. I guess when there's a program update, they probably send an email seeing that you have to be registered to have the program anyways. I still believe that this is a good program either as a backup or on-access scanner since the scanner is that of Kav and the program seems very stable. I'm running WinXP Home SP1.

 

Hi Paul, curiosity got the better of me, I sent another email regarding the program updates/upgrades. I'll post here when I get a response.

 

Hi All, well I received my response from Steganos:

Dear madam, dear sir,

thank you for using Steganos software.

No, the updates are not available as "stand-alone-files". Possible available program updates will be downloaded automatically during the virus-database update.

For further question please feel free to send me an E-mail.

Steganos Customer Service

That is good enough for me

 

I still don't believe what the support is telling there. I find it hard to imagine that Steganos has rewritten AVK just to use one button instead of two like in the original AVK. But we will see...

wizard

 

The same stands for eXtendia AVK.


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To everyone from Firefighter!

How is that update/upgrade issue with VisNetic Antivirus and PowerAntiVirus XP?

KAV may have at least 10 clones!


Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Yes, many....



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