Commtouch bought Command Anti-Malware from Authentium

Commtouch bought Command Anti-Malware from Authentium.

I think this got overshadowed by the recent acquisition of McAfee.

Its high time someone overhauls Authentium's policy of not appearing in real tests. I would love to see this one competing against F-Prot.

 

Interesting news. Command AM was a very simple to use AM... Lets see how it becomes...

 

I had superb support from the UK team over several years of use when it was Command Antivirus; CSAV . Very light footprint and fast scanning.

But Command/Authentium AntiVirus was always pitched at the Corporate/Enterprise market and this was reflected in the relatively high retail cost of the Home products.

So it is/was rare to see it tested outside of Virus Bulletin but it uses the F-Prot engine so detection of the two is/was always very similar when tested together; both probably Tier2/Tier3 standard.

So overall, IMO, CSAV/Command AntiMalware is no great loss to the Home market which was never the target. But it will be of interest to see whether a Home product is still continued.

Another AV company is swallowed up.

 

Actually if I remember correctly Command had a smaller database of it's own malware on-top of the F-Prot engine.

 

Yes, they were supposed to add their own signatures but nearly all of the tests that I have seen with the old F-Prot version 3 engine in CSAV and the newer engine in Command AntiMalware all showed basically the same results between Frisk and Authentium; no great surprise.

 

Trying CSAV5 right now. It is fast and light. I can also see cloud scanning feature. But I'm not happy with the updater. A few times the updating simply fails to connect to the update server.