VBA32

just notice that http://virusscan.jotti.org/ add one new av into its online scan engine. it seems like a russian av. the webpage is russian too. any ideas or comments about it?

 

hmm interesting , no english webpage or at least not functionnal.

Never heard of it tho.

 

They are working to release the website and program in english soon. The program has good heuristics and not bad detection rates (that's surprising good for a product that is not so well known). It is better than some other known AV's out there...

 

Enjoy the babelfish translation

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babe...=http://www.anti-virus.by/products/pc/55.html

 

IBK,could you test it in a near future? I'm really interesting on how it performs. Looks very nice for now on Jotti...

 

I already tested it, but the results were for the VBA company only. And anyway, even if it is good, currently it is still under the 85% and it had some issues here on which they are currently working to solve. Even if it is under the 85%, it is better than most of the other scanners that are also under the 85%, which are listed in the additional test on my site.

 

Seems asthough they are getting a start on the english site;
http://www.anti-virus.by/./en/

Also does anyone know if they are just a clone of KAV? Because I noticed they have almost the exact same filename's for virii and malware that KAV does. I know alot of the companies use similiar naming conventions, but it is just a thought. Although it did miss one of the virus I threw at it on Jotti's that KAV missed so I don't know. But even if they do and they have a decent Heuristic Engine, that would be very nice.

 

VBA32 3.10.3 English Download:

ftp://anti-virus.by/pub/vba32-workstation-3.10.3-multilanguage.exe

 

Strike my last comment about being a KAV clone, I have installed the latest Beta with the latest updates and it missed 16 out of 64 that Kaspersky calls a piece of malware. So I guess I can negate that comment.
Be aware if you do install the latest version you need a keyfile much like the KAV setups inorder to get the latest updates. The beta key is available and works well. I do have to say that the Heuristics are quite good they picked up 3 that were not in the virus database. One thing I don't like it the fact that the setting for heuristics and deletion are sort of hidden, but other than that for a newer AV this is a nice start, a big plus for me is that it only starts one process and is at 20k or so of VM. I really like the "feel" also I cannot wait to get an actual full on well developed version this has the makings of a great AV. Just my .02

 

Just for the record, it appears that this AV program is crafted in Belarus, not in Russia. It might not seem like much of a difference to those who live in the "West," but to the people of those respective countries it would be like saying a Canadian product was made in Texas .

 

I was just about to mention that. Thank you for clarifying

 

likuidkewl-
Thank you for providing the link. I agree with you that vba32 is not a clone of kav. from the results of http://virusscan.jotti.org/ , which i keep on refreshing every several minutes, vba32 missed lots of malwares the kav could catch and i think it is a below average av.

jmschwartz-
Thank you for the clarification. My guess came from the Russian webpage and now i know i was wrong.

 

While testing this software, I have been in contact with a support person, Serge, and he has been a great help. There are a few bugs that still need to be worked out and they know about them. Also they are constantly working the database and training the heuristic checker from what I am told. As they seem to have an influx of users now they are realising the support needs and are working on a distributer in Germany and eventually the US. They are taking it slow which IMO is a good step. I must say I like the interface and the heuristic engine very much. And I stated to them in the emails I anxiously await the international release.
Below are a few snippet from the emails:

in reference to some missed samples:

HTH

 

likuidkewl, any chance of any screenshots?

It will take them a little longer than this!

 

Seems like a nice company. I like to help the developing companies. Maybe I'll test VBA32 out too sometime

But only after my exams are finished

 

Well I downloaded this AV my itself and here are some preliminary findings;

* Main file is a 11.7MB Download.

* Can carry out a custom install.

* Places only one running process in memory; vba32ldr.exe which is the VBA32 Loader. Takes up only 11.42 MB VM.

 

Can update once without the beta key-file, but a number of configurations are missing in the demo mode.

Beta key-file is HERE.

 

Official Beta tester once the key-file is used.

54,872 virus definitions.

 

Monitor Actions.

 

RTM file-settings. On this old test computer ( 400MHz, 192MB RAM ), I found the all-files settings a little heavy.

The tray icon of the RTM becomes animated during updating and scanning of files: shades of Kaspersky!

 

The Scanner's main GUI. The on-demand scanner was very slow. Much slower than Dr Web, KAV, NOD and McAfee have been on this box with the same number of files to scan.

 

Objects to scan.

 

Actions to set for the on-demand scanner.

 

VBA32 places 2 entries in the right-click menu. One for the scanner and one for the properties of the scanner. IMO, a nice touch.

 

The AV Loader.