Immunet Protect- Free cloud based AV

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It will be very interesting to see how this is implemented. It's not clear if there will be a new client combining IP and ClamAV.

 

"By adding the leading capabilities of ClamAV". That is bit of an exaggeration. lol

So if we download the client from ClamAV, is it the same as the one at Immunet?

 

In my view the decision to use ClamAV detracts from their brand in marketing speak.

ClamAV doesn't score well, does it?

This has put me off Immunet. Not a very good halo-effect.

Ian

 

The Clam aint too bad, just suffers from no real-time protection. Over the years I've seen it score about two-thirds of what other AVs would score. With Immunet's up-and-coming detection rate, combined it should be decent.

By I can't work out, does this mean the Immunet will add the Clam, or will the Clam add Immunet to their product and Immunet carries on doing what it's doing? And does this mean the Clam is now real-time?

Talk about a media release that has too much 'mumbo jumbo' and not enough straight-to-the-point facts!

 

My understanding from that article is Immunet will add Clam engine to its cloud and the program itself will be called ClamAV.

 

More info here
http://www.clamav.net/about/win32/

http://immunet.com/pressreleases?id=13

I think that all this are great news, I mean Immunet is design for work along your AV like Prevx, now we have Immunet + data base of ClamAV consuming the same resources
Also we should expect more new stuff before the final release in April like ETHOS, and better heuristics.

Somebody wants an Immunet T-shirt? xD
http://blog.immunet.com/blog/2010/3...tect-product-survey-win-an-immunet-shirt.html

 

I've not seen impressive results when ClamAV has participated somewhere... is this really good news and in what way?

 

I'm trying to ClamAV version, and it looks/feels like the same Immunet, with the ClamAV graphic added. The installer is almost the exact same size, so I am guess there is no difference between the two programs.

 

It's not to hard to understand, now immunet also use the database of clamAV and also will add many users to the cloud. How can not be this good news.
I know that the clamAV database should be poor but is better than nothing, and maybe this agreement between Immunet and ClamAV could bring other benefits in a future. (Please keep your eyes open for future announcements around this as we integrate more closely over the coming months.)

You should remember that Immunet can work along with any AV so if you add the database of Vipre or all this vendors that sells their databases+engine you couldnt use Immunet along with any AV. Also Immunet should pay for this and will not be FREE anymore.
The "power" of immunet resides in that you can use it along with any AV, if you remove this, Immunet would be another AV with a poor detection.

I'm a bit fan of all the free security products since I have always use them, I have never spent my money in security and I have never had any problem with malware. For users like me Immunet is the only free alternative to prevx, Malwarebytes, SAS..., so I have hopes in this project xD

 

ClamAV by itself isn't so great,but in addition to Immunet's own technology it might well show much better results.

 

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I was wondering if the installer would be larger. The link describing the new product says:

"Immunet placed ClamAV into their Cloud infrastructure alongside their Ethos detection engine, and several other detection technologies"

I guess the ClamAV signature database is not installed locally...? I'll install this new version and check it out.

Edit:

Initially I attempted to install the new version over 1.0.0.26 and received a message saying it was already installed. So I uninstalled the old version and installed the new ClamAV. I like the ClamAV tray icon better...LOL On a serious note I'm hoping folks here will throw some malware at this new version and report the results.

 

http://community.immunet.com/immune...tm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification

At this point, ClamAV for Windows and Immunet Protect are the same, in all feature sets. Clam was kind enough to help us coordinate putting their technology into our cloud and currently both of our communities get that benefit

 

Does this affect how the program will react to being run beside another AV?

 

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I'm running this new version along side NIS 2010 and haven't had any issues so far. The new ClamAV component is in the cloud - no local signatures AFAICT - so hopefully it won't make the product less compatible with other AVs.

 

Okay, I ran Immunet for a day or so but uninstalled for whatever reason. I don't think it affected performance if memory serves.

 

I am running Avast5 (with no Mail or IM shield), threatfire, and ClamAV. The memory, CPU, and read/write bytes are really low with this combo.

I could also probably disable the Behav shield in Avast, but I don't think it really costs any resources from what I can tell.

 

Works well with MSE.

 

I'm running this new combo and so far I can't even tell it's there, performance seems to not be affected at all. It seems to be a nice little addition to a setup but I too would like to see some tests. Like it so far.

 

I just uninstalled Comodo 4 a day or two ago. It seemed like cmdagent ate a lot of CPU time compared to my current setup.

 

Running MSE and ClamAV together runs very light. Impressed with MSE. Picked-up a couple of trojans on a friend's system, without the files being launched. Just through browsing the folder in windows explorer.

Have to now test ClamAV on a few files.

 

Really? For me CIS is the lightest full featured suite I've used. I could actually afford to drop some stuff from my setup but nothing besides CIS & Immunet/ClamAV (for now at least) is realtime so I guess it doesn't hurt anything to have some extra programs to play with.

 

You might want to try a fresh install if you otherwise liked the product. I had noticed a small amount of people seemed to be posting bug reports regarding this issue in the Comodo beta forum.

I fortunately was 3 for 3 with no problems whatsoever. I am also amazed that through the changes (additions to the CIS suite) in recent years that the software still seems to run so light on my personal machines.

Oops! Just realized this is an Immunet thread!!! I'm optimistic regarding the partnership with ClamAV. This would be a 'win' for both companies and I am anxious to see what this does to the 'Immunet cloud' once a bunch of ClamAV fans get on board. Still running very light for me. As this product matures, I believe people will start seeing some big "saves" when the cloud comes to the rescue on zero day threats.

 

Try updating to the V4 final version:
http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html

 

Thought I'd try out the new Immunet protect with Microsoft Security Essentials. Together they work quite well.

Tested several threats, sandboxie took care of one which couldn't load, the other a rogue got through, MSE detected/cleaned 3, and 'The Clam' took out 2.

Overall, running MSE and the Clam could be a good combo. I noticed though, with the clam, in the new version, no alert showed like previously in Immunet. I had to check the history and it showed the threat was quarantined.

Does someone know:
* Will the alert function appear shortly?
* Will the clam update itself to a new version, or will the user do it manually?
* It has a restore function for quarantined items, but where do you go to delete quarantine?

Some screenshots of both.

 

Some more...



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The Clam strikes again


Is this how you delete quarantine? Just go to programs folder and delete?


Overall, both programs would leave a novice scratching their head as to what happened. Threats above were just either removed/cleaned.