Twister Antivirus

The Online Virus Scan of Twister can submit the local disk file to the online scan server and use the server scanner to complete the virus scan. the server scanner has the newer virus definition and it also has the frantic-heuristic scanner can detect more threats. you may use the Online Virus Scan to check it when you found a suspect file, or the FDDS(Filseclab Dynamic Denfense System) founds the suspect file but you cannot make sure whether it is safe, you may use the Online Scan to check it.

Best Regards,

Filseclab Support
service-global@filseclab.com

 

one thing i noticed is when i open a folder with malware samples the detection window kicks in but if i cancel any action for those malware and go to another folder and come back to that folder the detection window doesnt appear.
although when i right click on some of those malware the detection window appears again. "i think its a small bug"(as it doesnt allow the malwares to install.)
another thing when i submit a malware to online scan the result shows a malware name but in realtime it doesnt detect that malware, although FDD SYSTEM detects it & allows to stop it.
I think these are small bugs which are unnoticable as it has three step protection if one fails another protects.
Nice thing about TWISTER is you come to know that you have an AV only when the detection window appears(offcourse tray icon also) that means it is that much light.
another thing is i think its not alright to judge how an AV is light by wathching task manager process memory consumption etc. I think the right way is if you got loads of exe files with custom icons in a folder and if you access that folder how much time will take for those icons to appear.
In twister case it uses around 5 to 10 mb ram when not doing anything but when using explorer the usage goes to around 40 to 50 mb of ram.
similar RAM usage i saw with other popular AVs also but i can see the difference between those AVs and twister, i can feel the lightness of it against those AVs.

 

The online virus scan will submit the file scan it and return the result to you. The Online Submit will submit the file but do not make the scan. The Online False Positive Submit will submit the file and mark it as a false positive so that we can fix the virus definition.

Best Regards,

Filseclab Support
service-global@filseclab.com

 

Sure, we will do our best to keep it light for the new firewall.

Best Regards,

Filseclab Support
service-global@filseclab.com

 

Great to see someone from Filseclab here.

Four suggestions;

1. Try and improve the on-demand scan speed; Twister seems to be slow when scanning archives, particularly CAB and JAR files.

2. See if you can get Twister tested at several of the major AV testing sites.

3. Consider the possibility of an English Forum?

4. A little more detail needed on the Help-File.

 

This is our a design to avoid the loop scan, the loop scan will take more system resource, so, we make a cache let it will not be scan again in a short time, but this is no problem, the virus is still be blocked even no alert window.

Best Regards,

Filseclab Support
service-global@filseclab.com
http://www.filseclab.com

 

More questions;

1. How long has Twister AV been in operation?

2. Has its detection rate been tested anywhere ?

3. How frequent are the updates, particularly at week-ends?

 

Thanks for your good suggestions:
1. Sure, the Twister has a slow scan speed for archives, especially for big archives. we will try to improve it in the next version. but for other files, its speed is light.
2. We have also contacted av-test.org, but they have no response, maybe caused by our program is not a well known. but we will consider to try more.
3. We have a good development team but we have no good english man, broken english is our demerit, however we will consider that if we can get more english customers.
4. Sure the cause likes the 3, the broken english feaze us, however we will try to update it in the next version.

Best Regards,

Filseclab Support
service-global@filseclab.com
http://www.filseclab.com

 

1. 7 years, it is beginning from 2001.
2. Not yet now, it has more great improvement in near two years, so, it looks like a new growing up av software, we have plan to join some tests.
3. 8-9 times per day includes week-ends and law-holiday, about 3-hour makes one update.

Best Regards,

Filseclab Support
service-global@filseclab.com
http://www.filseclab.com

 

I am sure that a number of members here who like the look of Twister/have already bought a license could help out here if needed.

 

Here's the advise: Before you continue improving it you should add some basic cleaning ability. At least for the most common viruses. You simply can't delete the most common malware by just deleting the whole file. Example: Parite. They are really easy to clean in that way that the non-malicious host file remains after cleaning. Before you join VB Tests you really should improve your fileinfector detection. Your current detection score is there next to nothing. You detect single infections out of 1000's of replicated files. Prolly just a simple CRC/Checksum that only detects the one file YOU have.

 

Inspector, what is your current AV if any?

 

Does somebody know what the circled/ marked red options mean? see pic

 

Oh, given the opportunity, the graphic interface has some minor visual glitches when used in PC with large fonts. Some words are half way cut. Maybe you can fix this in the next release. Examples:

 

Directly for the help file. The bad thing is that if you check them, you get a warning that they will create more FP.

 

Hi
Does anyone know if you use this program wether you could disable the realtime spyware protection of spyware terminator,as the program is suppose to detect spyware as well
Thanks

 

Hi, i am not sure if i understand your question. You mean, if you can rely for antispyware on Twister so to disable Spyware Terminator? I suppose you can, but it all comes down on how much faith you have on Twister's abilities and your habbits. If you are a high risk user who encounters spyware often, maybe you should first run them both for a while and see if Twister seems good enough for you.

 

@Filseclab representative -

++ Welcome to Wilders! Your ability in the English language is very good. Please start an English-language forum for Twister.

++ PLEASE make the firewall an optional install. Some people do not use a software firewall. For example, my NAT/SPI router gives me good incoming protection, and the HIPS I use protects against outgoing.

@All -

Task manager shows that Twister has two running processes -- Twister.exe and Filmsg.exe.

According to a message from Filseclab (which I paraphrase) the Filmsg process has 2 main functions:
(1) Providing a dialog box for messages such as trial information, expiration notice, etc.
(2) Showing online messages such as new edition notification or some other important notification

If Filmsg is disabled, the main functions of Twister still will be ok.

@Bunkhouse Buck - You MIGHT get an answer via a PM. ~removed off topic comments....Bubba~

 

I agree and with the happy English users, it will be worth it.

 

I do not know how much my input on this is worth but been running it as a normal user about 4days now doing no testing with any virus,malware,trojans, and so on. i did not change my browsing habits and have not checked my sys with any other AV but have checked with (a-squared,SAS,MBAM.) and they have found nothing. i will be checking my sys with 2 AV to see if they find any thing and will post back with the results of the scans as of now i am very happy with this AV and it's performance. no BSOD,hangs, and so on but i did get a few FP on a deep scan of compressed file set to max and used the online summit to Twister and it reported back no virus found.

 

Hi
Yes that was what i ment thank you.

 

As anyone made changes to the default settings.
Badcompany.

 

I have all checked except "Virus Immunity" and enabling termination by task manager.
It runs fine with no issues. Twister does alert aggressively when you try to install any program, throwing up alerts about the creation of temp files, autorun registry entries and such but that's ok by me because it tells me it's doing its job. I turned Twister off briefly for Windows Updates because I didn't want to click through a series of permissions. With some installers I've noticed that even if you select "trust" when you get a warning, the installer stops and gives an error message. Running the installer a second time works fine.

Windows XP Home SP3
Twister
Comodo Boclean
WinPatrol Plus

 

P.S.
Checking "Detect packed files" will give you more false positives.
On my PC on a deep scan of about 160,000 files I got 24 false positives but 20 of them were due to the detection of UPX packers.
They were easy to figure out because they were from program files like A-Squared,Sony etc.
The other 4 FPs were easy to figure out as well.

 

Thanks for the info.
Badcompany.