Very impressed with VBA32.

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  1. Blackcat

    Blackcat Registered Member

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    According to their sales people, a 2-year license for the Personal edition will be available through eMetrix for $41 from next week.
     
    Blackcat, Jul 11, 2005
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  2. SDS909

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    Sold!
     
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    Just incase anyone wanted to know the discount for license renewals is 15%.
     
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    I am very impressed by their support. So far I have sent in a couple of FP's and I get a reply within a couple of hours. No bad at all.... :D
     
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  6. SDS909

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    I just got into the Microsoft One-Care beta. I think I will switch all the PC's here over to MS's Antivirus solution when it launches.

    VBA32 was promising for me though.
     
    SDS909, Aug 10, 2005
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  7. SDS909

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    Don't knock the heuristics. I just ran into a brand new outbreak, and check out these results.

    http://www.boredmofo.com/downloads/vba2.JPG

    Oh, and One-Care is aweful.. I uninstalled it less than a day after having it installed. There isn't even an on-demand scan, and it just all seemed like a bad joke. Oh well.
     
    SDS909, Aug 12, 2005
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  8. jlo

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    Hi,

    can I ask what is VBA's updater like. Does it silently updated and are the updates incremental and how often does it check for an update?

    Many Thanks

    Jlo
     
    jlo, Aug 12, 2005
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  9. jmschwartz

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    Hey SDS909,

    How's it going? I installed Microsoft's Beta and after about 5 minutes got tired of its bloated, slow virus scan. The other tools (backup, disk defrag, etc.) work like the standalones in XP.

    I restored my image (with VBA32) using Acronis TrueImage and emailed Microsoft to remove my name from their Beta list (this is so some other worthy tester gets a chance to evaluate the product).

    Seems we had the same luck with the One-Care experience. Let's stick with VBA32.
     
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  10. SDS909

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    Yup, exactly the same experiance as you with OneCare. Like 2-3 HOURS for a scan on a fast SATA2 machine.. WTF?

    I'm sticking with VBA32.. Especially since its heuristics have nailed several recent baddies for me.
     
    SDS909, Aug 13, 2005
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  11. SDS909

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    Oh and I REALLY regret installing OneCare.. I didn't have an image, and it totally borked my system to the core.

    A format is in order now.. F-ing Microsoft crap.
     
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    Yup incremental updates via a method of binary patching (incremental updates of exe's, dll's etc too). Can be setup to be silent if i remember correctly.

    Can be set to update as little as evey hour.
     
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  13. jlo

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    Thanks for for the update info!

    May give it a try when my NOD32 licence expires

    Cheers

    Jlo
     
    jlo, Aug 13, 2005
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  14. Miyagi

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    Jlo,
    Vba32 can be updated silently. Just make sure to 'uncheck' the Interactive checkbox in the Loader module. You can also set to update hourly. Updates are available daily including the weekend. Nice compact product imo. ;)
     
    Miyagi, Aug 15, 2005
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  15. Peter2150

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    How does VBA32 determine which files aren't changed. Hopefully they don't use the KAV approach of ADS.

    Pete
     
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  16. RejZoR

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    Why do you all have such problem with NTFS ADS !? They work just fine and i really don't see any reason not to use them :rolleyes:
     
    RejZoR, Aug 15, 2005
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  17. Peter2150

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    In my case it's very simple. I use Raxco's First Defense-ISR, and if you check their website it states the program is incompatible with KAV 5.0. That really isn't true, but it is incompatible with KAV's use of ADS. I know I tried it. Had to uninstall KAV, clean off the ADS's and reinstall KAV without ADS, and it works fine. Since I won't give up FD-ISR for anything, the question remains:

    Does VBA32 use ads?

    Pete
     
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  18. dan_maran

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    With version 3.10.4 I have found no evidence of streams at all.
     
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    Got a screenshot of VBA anyone? I would like to see how it looks ;)
     
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    A number of screenshots found here.
     
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    Thank you. Looks good, plenty of options.
     
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    BTW for those of you who are going to trial VBA32, try out the Workstation version and do a custom install to utilize all the features, some are disabled by default, script-scanning, the bat plugin, etc. HTH
     
    dan_maran, Aug 16, 2005
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  23. Firefighter

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    Vba32 has increased quite aggressively the number of defs. On the 8:th April 2005 it had only 54842 defs, today 91729, which is more than DrWeb has now with those nasty/risky beta defs, 91101. Is this speed the record of this year?

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     

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  24. Rasheed187

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    I have not installed VBA32, but I have to say I was a bit impressed when I saw that it was the only scanner that detected spyware in Easy Message at Jotti. It seems like their paranoid heuristics is working really well. :)
     
    Rasheed187, Dec 17, 2005
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  25. jlo

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    I am trialing it at the moment. I dowloaded the demo and the kind people at VBA sent me a months licence to trial it.

    It has so far really impressed me with excellent Heuristcs, excellent Defs and quick to update a false alarm or add a new virus sample.

    I had one false alarm on installing it but sent the file in and it was corrected later in the day.

    Will be buying a licence for this AV for one of my computers. On my Laptop though I am sticking to Nod32.

    Cheers

    Jlo
     
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