AntiVir 7

Well AntiVir ain't that bad either. Only thing that i miss in free edition is spyware detection. AVG and avast! handle all threats equaly as their payable big brothers. Small downside but thats a tradeoff for being free i guess.
Bright side of this is that they still cover the most obvious threats that also fall under spyware category. Thing that i like in AntiVir 7 is the new sleek interface which is really 1A for me. It's perfect. Configuration page might be a bit too complex in Expert mode but thats why it's called Expert
Excellent minimalistic interface with full feature set. Really can't argue with that.
Perfromance of scanner is also pretty high. I haven't even checked the memory usage since it was running so smooth.

 

The new version seemed to improved a lot the GUI and its detection on all malware, except Adware/Spyware that are one of the biggest plagues of the present, and reaches millions of users...

Maybe they change this in the future, or not...

 

After test AntiVir 7 I noticed that updates run out in May. Does anyone know what happens after that? I thought it was free?

Thank you for any info.

 

The date will be extended automatically prior to expiration...

 

Cool. Thanks.

 

Rasheed: Last time I looked, horizontal menus were the defacto standard for windows programs.... chosing an AV because of its menu alignment seems a bit strange....
and quoting iwod on the ressources: "Now it is using less than 4Mb of Working Set with 55Mb VM", I doubt KAV goes below that....

 

Actually, the full 6.0 suite are using 4.5mb if just memory, 27mb total (with VM), as i write this. I agree about menu's though.

 

I must say i was pleasantly surprised as a first time user to AntiVir PE Classic version 7 .
I tried configuring it to run along side Avast! home, but it meant losing the P2P & Instant messaging modules .
Also not running the 'Guard' in Antivir . So one or the other
Kind of confusing really, the freebies are very good, if they weren't I'd be buying a commercial one .

 

Actually, I meant I can´t stand "horizontal scrollbars" (not toolbars), I have edited my last post. I think it makes the GUI looks ugly. But I never said that this was the reason I would not use AntiVir anymore. And about resource usage, it just feels a lot more sluggish compared to v6, even on my new machine with 1GB RAM. Also, if you start the control center it will use even more RAM, logical but I think it´s too much.

 

LOL? I have half that RAM size and runs fast like nuts. Memory is there to be used m'kay? And i sure hope for you that you keep AntiVir minimized while you use your PC. Don't have a clue why i'd care how much program uses when opened. I mean it's not like AntiVir 7 consumes entie 1GB of RAM...
AntiVir 7 worked the same as NOD32 on my machine. And thats VERY fast.
So no complaints here. Haven't seen any horizontal scrollbars either...

 

See.......every program seems to perform differently on different machines.
For one Kav is top and for the other Kav crawls, same with Bitdefender.
How come? Maybe hardware interference, running processes interference......
Antivir 7 ran like silk here also!!

 

Wow, latest AntiVir heuristics are really incredible. Checking the Jotti today and i constantly see AntiVir detecting stuff with heuristics.

 

Unfortunately I have not seen so dramatic detections with heuristics only. In my mind still NOD and DrWeb are still far more ahead, when you need at least two detections in Jotti's snapshots to minimize those possiple False Positives.

The good news with AntiVir, it was in the same class in Av-Compatives as NOD, but in Jotti's it seems to be in the fourth place just after DrWeb, Kaspersky and Vba32 (in alphabetical order). So, very good job to AntiVir®!

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

If you really want to know the Jotti's 6 x 100 snapshots results during the last week, here it is.


FF 6 x 100 av-test from Jotti's snapshots 03.-11. Mar. 2006:

All samples in these snapshots are NOT with "ZIP", "RAR", "CAB" format or those "COM" format, that are actually old DOS samples. (most of all are with "EXE" format).

Those snapshots were excluded, where all av:s were capable to detect the sample, but there have still to be at least two detectings in each snapshot.

Detection rate:

Total ------ Set 1 ----- Set 2 ----- Set 3 ----- Set 4 ---- Set 5 ----- Set 6


72.3 % ----- 82 % ----- 69 % ----- 78 % ----- 72 % ----- 61 % ----- 72 % -- DrWeb 4.33
72.2 % ----- 78 % ----- 76 % ----- 64 % ----- 71 % ----- 74 % ----- 70 % -- Kaspersky
70.3 % ----- 70 % ----- 71 % ----- 66 % ----- 74 % ----- 68 % ----- 73 % -- Vba32
62.3 % ----- 62 % ----- 57 % ----- 59 % ----- 74 % ----- 63 % ----- 59 % -- AntiVir
59.0 % ----- 71 % ----- 63 % ----- 52 % ----- 54 % ----- 60 % ----- 54 % -- NOD32
58.3 % ----- 65 % ----- 63 % ----- 55 % ----- 58 % ----- 55 % ----- 54 % -- BitDefender
46.0 % ----- 55 % ----- 43 % ----- 38 % ----- 49 % ----- 49 % ----- 42 % -- Fortinet
45.3 % ----- 51 % ----- 47 % ----- 43 % ----- 43 % ----- 52 % ----- 36 % -- Norman VC
43.2 % ----- 49 % ----- 46 % ----- 33 % ----- 55 % ----- 41 % ----- 35 % -- ArcaVir
42.5 % ----- 53 % ----- 50 % ----- 39 % ----- 42 % ----- 41 % ----- 30 % -- AVG
32.8 % ----- 40 % ----- 35 % ----- 36 % ----- 35 % ----- 25 % ----- 26 % -- Avast
28.0 % ----- 26 % ----- 28 % ----- 32 % ----- 34 % ----- 30 % ----- 18 % -- ClamAV
24.3 % ----- 37 % ----- 27 % ----- 23 % ----- 24 % ----- 23 % ----- 12 % -- F-Prot
24.0 % ----- 35 % ----- 20 % ----- 20 % ----- 31 % ----- 17 % ----- 21 % -- UNA
17.0 % ----- 26 % ----- 19 % ----- 21 % ----- 16 % ----- 12 % ----- 08 % -- VirusBuster

This is the only av-test, where any av-vendor can't prepare to the test before the test itself. To exclude those possible False Positives, I didn't count those detectings made by one av only.

If someone says that 600 snapshots are too small sample to test in a week, you are free to try that by yourself. A good hint. Try Gadwin PrintScreen to collect those snapshots!

Best regards,
Firefighter!