Newcomer Challenges the Antivirus Establishment (PCWorld)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/131369-1/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

 

It seems Syberus is currently available for download here:
http://robotgenius.net/

 

Well, this thread sure will hit page 10. A new BB with bold statements.
Any testers yet?

 

99%.... Hah... Hah... Someone prove it wrong. Please do. lol.

 

They don't explain to me how it works, just a bunch of words and expressions that doesn't mean anything to me.
Maybe other members do understand this, certainly not me. I'm too stupid for this.

 

Great! a new toy to play with.
Will try it.

 

Indeed a new toy, I'm looking forward to the results. Try to break it any possible way you can. That's what I would do IF I was a security expert or an experienced user.

 

This technology of Robot Genius Spyberus is basically almost the same concept as KAV's proactive defense module, Norman Sandbox or BitDefender B-HAVE. When you want an ability measure of Spyberus, think KAV PDM or Micropoint, though with not quite the same effectiveness because this company is new in the security field.

There was one Principal AntiVirus in past which relied on same measure. The only thing really interesting about this is the so-called Take Control tool, which can help in malware disinfection.

 

Firecat, they claim to be ahead of AVs. Testing is in order IMO! Just not by me..

 

It sounds better to me that "I" Take Control, not some tool, that doesn't see the difference between good and bad.
Scanners have also false/positives, because they aren't smart enough, that's because these scanners have an I.Q. of a brick.

 

I tested against Firewall Leaktester's anti-keylogger test. It failed the first three tests. I didn't test the screen capture parts. This program seems to act like PrevX in that it stores a database of applications and asks user if he/she wants to contribute to building the database. Just my $0.02.

 

Three leaks and this is supposed to be a Genius ? Sigh ... another rasp.

 

Peter,
ROFLMAO. Thanks for sharing the brilliant results of this newcomer, who challenges the AntiVirus Establishment. ROFLMAO.

 

Hello,
Sounds boring...
Mrk

 

Spyberus added about 15 extra seconds to the boot process, but that might be an internal furious fight between Prevx1, Comodo FW, spyberus and boclean for getting closest to the kernel
It didnt play well with Comodo Firewall, it kept locking my computer. I turned off Comodo FW but then spyberus crasched. I didnt have time to see much of its features before it crasched. IT also prevented Comodo Boclean tray icon from starting.

I noticed one popup though, it was when I started Process explorer. Spyberus said it couldnt guarantee that PE was safe (and then it crasched) and that gave me an indication of what kind of software it might be, it looked like it was some sort of HIPS that wanted to ask too many questions. I was really only interested to check the sandbox feature. In the description it sounded a bit like Tiny Firewall Pro´s concept. That would´ve been nice to have though.

Maybe I try it on a clean snapshot someday.

 

it kept rebooting on my system with comodo BO,ssm pro, sensive guard installed.had to uninstall

 

Not a program I would like to ever install on my system again (not unless I'm prepared for a re-format). It was affecting my system in safe mode even, making my computer sluggish to the extreme. I had quite a bit problems getting rid of this thing. Luckily I got to run an uninstaller application/cleaner (Smarty Uninstaller) in safe mode, and even if the Windows Installer service doesn't work in safe mode, Smarty Uninstaller got rid of the registry entries for Spyberus and most of the files I guess.

 

Sounds like more snake-oil from just another company trying to get a foothold in the burgeoning sector of Windows security, and shame on PC World for endorsing yet another potential advertising cash cow for its lame publication without testing and reviewing it first. The days of PC World focusing primarily on PCs are long gone.

 

Someone should invite an RG rep to post here. Good pub for them, fun for us

 

I sent them an email regarding my test results. Haven't heard back yet.

 

Poor users who read PC World regularly, they can't trust it anymore. I prefer to do my own evaluations and testings. It isn't that difficult if you think long enough. Even when this software would work properly, I wouldn't need it anyway.