nProtect Anti-Virus/Spyware 4.0S (AVS4.0S) free antivirus using Bitdefender's scan engine

The Bitdefender definitions just updated. It's now just two updates and 9 hours behind Bitdefender. It will be interesting to see how often the definitions get updated.

 

I'm using AVS v4.0 beta as my antivirus again. It's free, is very light, and asks me action to take whenever it finds a threat.

 

I can't find a valid website nor download for 4.0.

 

http://avs.nprotect.com
http://avs4.nprotect.com/kr/index.html

 

Warning, it appears you cannot get the full GUI in English. Even uninstalling, I am having to guess on which buttons to press based on placement.

 

Did you download version 4? The UI is in English except for one button and firewall text.



This is the website for v4 beta.

 

Looks interesting.

Thanks

 

Yes I did. Also the button next to update, and some of the sub-menus, and the complete uninstall routine are what appears to be Korean or some other Asian language. I also did not like the fact that the programs spawns about 10-12 processes. I prefer to use an AV meant for my market. I don't really think that's the case for this one, based on the GUI and no English website.

 

Well, that.s not really English. More like Chinglish

 

GUI seems functional, I'll test it out sometime in the near future. The characters look Korean though.

And I just verified that INCA is a South Korean company.

 

Well it's from Korea, and English support is probably not a priority at the moment.

 

The GUI is one thing, but wait until you try to uninstall, it is all in Korean.

 

Nice and clean looking GUI. But I don't trust software from Asia, too bad.

 

Eqsecure and Malware Defender were great HIPS from Asia. I remember you liked a HIPS from the middle east (was it from Iran)? Zemena and Comodo are Turkish when I recall, correctly.So you trust software from the middle east. Where does your trust stop? India?

On the other hand, do you trust an OS from the US?, story goes around that they have backdoors included? Lol, better compile your own Linux distro.

 

When you uninstall it, select every checkbox and then click on the second (middle) button.

 

Actually, I don't even fully trust AV's in general, no matter where they are from. And sometimes you have no choice but to trust companies, the Mac OS and Linux are no options for me. And it also depends a bit on the developers, I'm sure you know that Arman (from Iran) was quite active over here on the forum.

 

"http://avs4.nprotect.com/kr/index.html"

the white guy on that page looks like he is trying to figure out what the heck the text reads

 

Well said W_S

As well as thinking "Maybe I`ll just stick with AVG".

I must have got lucky last time I uninstalled it but I will refer to your info for future reference.

Could be time to give this another go ?All I remember is that either the updates or scans took some time and that could have been just a quirk related to my system ?

Very nice GUI which always helps.

Regards Eck

 

I just checked it out via Sandboxie. And for my taste it's way too bloated, it installs way too many .exe files, and has way too many processes running, that's always a bad sign. I also wonder what the APT blocker is all about. But that's the problem with AV's nowadays, they are just not worth it.

 

The download url is 404ing.

 

Code:

http://avsd.nprotect.net/avs40/setup/nProtectSetup_AVS40.exe

 

As it is right now, AVS is too buggy for me to continue using. Yesterday, at some point it shut down for no reason. I only noticed this had happened when I saw it's icon was missing from the system tray. Today when I wokr my laptop up from sleep, one of its processes was using 25%+ CPU use for an extened period of time, for no reason. I was not running any scans, and it was not doing an update. I would have had to reboot to resolve this, but instead, I chose to uninstall it.

It's still only a beta, so hopefully the final version will be more stable.

 

The stable version of nProtect 4 has just been released. There are now both free and paid versions. The paid premium version costs 36,300 Won (around $30 US) a year for three PCs

http://avs4.nprotect.com/en/index.html

 

nProtect is now Tachyon Internet Security and they moved to v5
https://tachyonlab.com/en/b2c/prod_tis.html

 

10Q imuade for this update. I am now monitoring this thread because Tachyon seems to have >100% stick-to-it-ism. Thanks to Roger for finding it, lo many moons ago -- I hope he resumes trial usage. His posts are illuminative.