eXtendia AntiVirus updated

http://www.boomerangsoftware.com/Products/AntiVirus/AVK.htm

Its now using the Norman Virus Control engine. The price is the same at USD 29.95. There is no "Pro" version, only eXtendia AVK with Norman engine.

I wasn't expecting the product to ever be updated....

 

im not familiar with this AV; does it use other engines or no?

 

They haven't updated their customer support as well have they?

 

LOL !

 

WSFuser,
The Pro version formerly used KAV+RAV and then KAV+BitDefender engines.

 

I doubt about the KAV/BDF combo

Gerard

 

i know GDATA AVK uses KAV/BD but this is a diff program so i was curious.

 

eXtendia AVK used KAV and RAV engines as far as I know. I don't think it ever had KAV+BD engines.

 

thanx for the verification Firecat. how good the RAV engine anyways?

 

It WAS good before MS bought it and the product kind of "died".

 

As was already said, the RAV engine was quite good, until Microsoft purchased it. Some time after MS purchased GeCAD (makers of RAV), the updates stopped. So basically its a dead product now.

 

eXtendia was going to move to BD, but I don't think their agreement went through. Apparently now they have licensed the Normal engine and Sandbox.

The question I have, does that mean now it uses KAV+Norman? If that is the case, that might be a pretty nice product. But don't expect much of any support, I think it is a 1-2 man operation.

 

I am fairly certain it is just Norman. Boomerang is just a "re-brander" much like the Cosmi corporation, I wouldn't be suprised if they were a spinoff.

 

eXtendia does not mention the KAV engine anywhere, so I think its just Norman.

 

Yeah, so why not buying the Norman product directly?

 

Cost?

 

You pay more but you will get first-hand support and immediate updates when you need them...
imo

 

It is 15$ here

 

I think, I will skip this one too and spend $30 somewhere else.