Rising Antivirus

40% discount at the moment,

http://www.rising-global.com/offer/risingoffer.html

2 years AV for less than $30

just thought id let you know while im searching the asian markets

they offer a 50% renewal price, so maybe its best to just buy the 1 year

offer expires in 3 days

 

and it was a trip to use, not a good trip.

 

a little to ricy for my taste...Perhaps in a year or 2.


Cheers

 

it reminds me of VirusChaser, which is basically a clone of Drweb.

similar layout, but its GUI is better than VC's.

im hoping drwebs v5 will have a similar GUI to Rising's (or better... of course )

 

dr Web v5 , when?

 

lets not go down that road again, i dont know.

ask them

this is a rising thread, i like the AV but my only query was the EXTREMELY slow scanning speed (and this is in comparison to drweb )

 

Rising AV

your thoughts please

over 40 million users, surely they cant all be wrong.

 

Re: Rising AV

Not all that good it doesn't look like, at least on this site. you can look here also http://www.westcoastlabs.com/checkmark/productList/checkmarkTestResult/?productID=311&techGroupID=27&from=tg

 

Re: Rising AV

yeah but many failed the VB100,

i dont think its true ability is shown.

the trial is actually very good.

hmm, ok ... its been merged

wel, this AV is only $8, surely its worth that.... that is fast food price.

 

Yep, you just have to take those test results with a grain of salt concerning all av's

 

well i purchased it,

i, like you bigc, am a sucker for cheap prices

 

they will get us everytime

 

its ok,

having rollbackrx has its advantages, i can choose what setup i like every week/month

i bet you own more than me though,

current snapshots are:

drweb + prevx (3yr)
avg suite + prevx (2yr)
rising + prevx (1yr)

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not using, but own:

F-secure IS (many years+)
Bitdefender (2yr)

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stupid aint it, but for the prices ive paid for all, i doubt ive paid more than a 1 year RRP purchase. *lol*

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drweb + prevx will always be my primary one though, the one i will use 90% of the time, the one i always use for support/sending in files etc.

but its nice to have a choice, for a cheap price.

 

I might try Rising but I am trying to break the habit of all the av changing . Besides all the expense it is becoming a pain in the neck.

 

thats why i only buy ones that aint 'expense'

some of the deals i have are just stupid, i would never sell them at that price.

i dont think ive paid more than an RRP of norton or whatever, with all the years i have and different solutions.

 

I have been trying to break the habit myself but sometimes you have to. In my case it was either my memory card reader or NIS that had to go which prompted the latest change

 

It seems to have done pretty well here ( http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19670621-avtestorg-12-months-Test ). The OP said it was done by av-test.org. anyone have a link to this test for further reading?

 

I couldn't find one searching around. IBK did indicate that it would be included in his future tests.

 

It must be SLOW!

No express mode as in DW? Or can you tweak the settings, as in deselecting archives to speed things up?

 

Things have speeded up since I last tried it

Its got a decent scan speed

 

Maybe it uses some sort of caching between updates?

What is the memory usage, update intervals and does it have heuristics, Chris?

 

not on my computer, iPhone

Celebrating the new year, will let you know when I can.

Happy new year to all.

 

Yes, Rising AV does have heuristics, though it is disabled by default (but you can enable it easily via the user interface). The heuristics have not been tested professionally yet but it does not seem like a very good heuristic to me. Regardless, I don't think that the heuristic would fail AV-comparatives' testing, but of course all this is just speculation.

I hear that the 2008 version has improved in this regard as well as general proactive protection. However, I have not yet tried the 2008 version.

 

yes it has heuristics,

i like the Smart Virtual Machine with Behaviour Pattern Recognition.

also, the registry protection is pretty effective aswell.

pre-login scans are capable, aswell as a system area scan even before login.

5 processes / 12mb

no real drag on the machine, and takes up about 150mb HD space.

* the GUI is just awesome!

and for the £4 / $8 i paid, its a good purchase


edit: its an impressive package, very good software and glad i have this as an option.

uses an umbrella icon, not sure how i feel about that though.

 

Offer ended earlier in December.

Will be interesting if you can upgrade to the 2008 version.