How good is MAMUTU?

How is MAMUTU in terms of system load and responsiveness?
Is it chatty or only chatty during learning phase?
How would you rate it in stopping the zero day?

I got few months left of A2 pro, never really used it, is MAMUTU part of A2 PRO? IF so is it lighter then A2 pro or the same?

 

the speed is same the a2 is better cause have antivirus/antispyware database plus behabiour blocker(mamutu)all in one suite and yes it is ligth,it is chatty is you set it up in paranoid mode other than that is very silent i am testing this one for the whole week and the results are very very impresive testing with real malware

 

Keep us posted on your results jmonge, A2 anti-malware sounds very interesting.

 

yeap

 

Are you testing Mamutu or A2 anti-malware?

 

A2 squarealso mamutu cause mamutu is included the suite

 

Yea I knew Mamutu was in the suite but I wasn't sure if you were just testing Mamutu or the entire suite. Anyway thanks!

 

Nothing more to add to his facts on MAMUTU. Only very extremely pleased to finally see a Behavior Blocker that is well-rounded and effective as this is. Paranoid mode is only chatty because it should be in setting up a permanant White/Blacklist then again off Paranoid mode is not interrupting frequent at all IMO.

A wise choice and helpful product, one of the very rare ones IMHO when used as a suite or just BB.

EASTER

 

Used Mamutu for a number of months and was very pleased.
Light, responsive and easy to navigate round.
Paranoid mode didn't let me down, it threw up countless pop-ups initially but slowed down as its lists were compiled.
Overkill I know, but hey that's why it's called Paranoid Mode!

I compared it to Threatfire and found it better, the obsessive need to Quarantine in TF instead of Deny was a reason why I removed it.

I only removed Mamutu as I prefer the total system protection of a HIPS package instead of Behavioural protection.
Personal preference.

 

you'r welcome

 

agree

 

i was searching for more BB but are not too many out there,do you know any other ones that i can try?or test?

 

In a word

EXCELLENT!!!

 

Very configurable. I like that. And I believe it collects data from the A-squared community .. right?

 

How good is Mamutu at detecting malware? Is its behaviuoral detection comparable to Prevx Edge?

 

I think Prevx Edge has a BB component to it. You might try it out.

Edit: Theres also the old favourite Threatfire!

 

Mamutu is a solely a BB, Edge incorporates a few different things along with its BB. but i will add, Mamutu is by far my favorite BB.

 

So I guess Edge would be comparable to A2 anti-malware as a whole.

 

Not by a long shot, only one that slightly compares to it is DS but Px is one of a kind really.

 

But DS has registry and file protection. Edge has nothing of the sort.

 

In that respect, so is Ilya's DEFENSEWALL & Tzuk's SANDBOXIE, AND MIKE W"s RETURNIL, ETC.

 

Mine too Once it's learned your system it's so quiet that on occasions I've looked for a fault,thinking it's stopped working.Threatfire had a tendency to just kill anything considered bad,(whether or not it was),without warning...most annoying.Mamutu allows a lot of control over how to deal with individual behaviours within a program,in my opinion this is the best of it's specific type by some degree.

 

Exactly the way a BB should perform. There *MUST be some interaction/decision offered to any alerts becuase no app i know of can blindly say a certain file is malicious without first showing the user what it has raised up against in an alert.

EASTER

 

But is Mamutu good at detecting malicious behaviour?

 

In a word YES! But you'd be wise to stay far away from Threatfire. They are doing nothing to make it competitive, only ridicuous. WHO EVER HEARD OF A MALWARE THREAT AS REGEDIT WHEN THE OFFENDING APP IS REALLY THE CULPRIT, BUT TF WILL YANK Regedit instead of addresing the real malware directly. That's another reason why i pulled awat from it myself plus NO DENY OPTIONS?

It's done, stick a fork init or else grab an old version of CyberHawk that knows how to zero in and give the user a way to terminate the source malware, not system files.

EASTER