VBA32 News

Mitya, a moderator at the VBA32 forum posted today that a beta version of VBA32 will be released either this week or next week. That's great news for us VBA32 fans. Hopefully resource usage will be reduced. I suspect it will because of the uprising of the VBA32 faithful regarding resource usage. Also, it is rumored that there will be changes to the RTM in future versions.

Should we now begin to have hope?

 

I am anxious to see the improvements, hopefully they will be as they say.

One thing I have noticed is that VBA is now not only using "KAV style" naming convention but also Dr. Web.
Example: Similarities can be seen scanning Zlob variants.

This is interesting after the melee in April over Polipos....

 

A little more news, apparently yesterday VBA uploaded the translated version of the installation designer to ease deployments.
It is also useful for people who like one click installs also.

ftp://open.by/vba/vba32-installtuner-1.0.9-english.zip

 

What then is there left to do in this new beta version? As I understand it the beta version will only include changes to the installation procedure. Sadly all our views on resource usage seem to have been ignored. There are going to be no changes to the RTM either in this version. So if all installation tuning can be done with, the appropriately named, installtuner why have a new version?

 

To me with all the time being taken to put out a new beta, there must be more "features" Mitya is not really know for getting the point across fully. Might be the whole language barrier thing.

Also the install designer is only for initial installs not program modifications

 

Fingers crossed then.

 

Looks like we are getting news from the German side of things on what is coming up.

See thread here:

http://vba32.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=87

 

While that is great news, and it does show that VBA32 is improving, I fail to see how this addresses any concerns that were previously mentioned. They seem to be only adding aspects to it that will make it more resource intense; such as the HTTP scanner (which is not needed it you have a good RTM). Right? I am curious what the transition to unicode will do for VBA32.

 

new version on the update FTP, no installer yet only by updates.

Memory is still around 50+ MB, but system impact with New/Changed files is negligible.

Getting ready to scan the C: drive.

 

49 minutes for 15690 files with maxed out settings, ie. Thorough mode and Excessive heuristics. Not bad.

Might do a scan at standard settings to see how it compares.

/EDIT/
20:02 with default settings, extremely faster than previous builds!

 

That is good news. It's also a bit suprising; how a company can improve their scanner speed that much. I remember it used to be really slow. Of course it was never as slow as Dr Web, but hardly anything else it. I wonder why the scanner changes weren't mention it any forum? Tricky VBA32

likuidkewl- I know the resource usage hasn't gone down, and hopefully it hasn't increased. But, with these recent changes, if VBA32 now good enough to use as your only on access scanner?

 

I have used it as my only OA scanner many a time. Never got infected, unless on purpose.

It has been a while but I feel "At home" again on my notebook with VBA32 on the defense.
I don't know why but this AV feels right to me.

This release seems to be quite stable so a install as On access IMO is a safe bet.

 

I know what you mean. Conventional logic says this should not be a main AV, at least not yet. It has not been doing to well in tests, and is still missing rather imoprtant features; such as a scheduer, and adequate RTM scanning, and it's resource usage is way too high. But I find myself searching for a reason, any reason to use VBA32. Why I don't know.

 

Yes, the new scanner is a lot better; about 25% faster on this computer. This is a big improvement and there is now also a desktop icon for the Scanner

RTM taking up about 42 MB memory but very lightweight as usual.

VirusBlokAda are slowly improving their AV.

 

Hmm I don't see one, What is the path in the shortcut BC?

 

I am on another computer now, but when I installed the new version, 2 icons appeared on my desktop; one for the Loader and one for the Scanner. Clicked on the latter and the scanner main Window came up.

There you go.

 

Did you install 3.11.1 first?

 

Yes, 3.11.1 and then updated.

 

Accrording to the VBA32 forum the beta has not yet been released. But it will be in a matter of hours. Is that correct?

 

Wierd, when you get a chance BC could you post the shortcut from the properties menu?

N8, it has been on the beta update servers since last night.

 

It's already there. Look in the above screenshot.

BTW. Congrats on 500!!!

 

Oh haha he edited his post. Missed that one!

Thanks