Anti-Malware Reviews
GDATA AntiVirus 2009 Review
FYI - I uploaded the GDATA antivirus 2009 review last night. YouTube.com/mrizos
I really enjoyed working with GDATA. I firmly beleive that multiple scan engines are the furture (along with whitelisting). GDATA removed 95% of the malware on the test PC, however it couldn’t remove Qhost or any malware related registry entries.
My official rating for GDATA [...]
My New Anti-Malware Product Rating System
Let’s face it. I’m not testing these applications on a point-by-point basis and I honestly have no idea how much malware exists during each test….so I needed to come up with a new rating system…a more “non-techicnical, tell ya like it really is” rating system.
So, here is what I came up with:
Products that are [...]
F-Secure Internet Security Review
I uploaded the F-Secure Internet Security 2009 review on Friday. You can watch the review over at my youtube channel
Personally I pre-screened F-Secure and it failed misurably, then I performed the review and some how it was WORSE!!! I saw no reason to even test it in safemode because I honestly couldn’t find [...]
HiJackThis Log For Anti-Malware Product Reviews
As I work on the F-Secure review I thought I’d introduce HiJackThis logs before and after. Here is the current HijackThis Log for this (current) infected PC:
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 10:53:31 AM, on 9/26/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.exe
C:\WINDOWS\shell.exe
C:\WINDOWS\wpopejyl.exe
C:\Program Files\NetProject\scit.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_04\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\SystemDefender\SystemDefender.exe
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware [...]
Norton Internet Security 2009 Review
Hi Everyone! I uploaded the 8 part Norton Internet Security Review to YouTube. You can watch any of my reviews by going to YouTube.com/mrizos.
NIS2009 performed pretty well! It removes a lot of serious malware, however it leaves behind a little adware (vundo) and a few trojan downloaders (the exe’s). Here is the HiJackThis log after [...]
Vipre: The Day After Video
I just took a look at my PC with Vipre protecting it, here is what I found.
Sunbelt’s Vipre - My Closing Opinion - Part 1
Vipre performed really well at detecting and removing malware, but only in safemode (remember, strictly speaking on removal abilities here). Basically there were too many infections and not enough RAM (512MB).
When using Vipre in normal bootmode it was unable to remove about 80% of the active threats and once those threats were marked for deletion [...]
Sunbetlt’s Vipre Reviewed!
Hi Everyone! I reviewed Sunbelt’s Vipre today.
youtube.com/mrizos
The People Have Spoken! Bit Defender Review Next
Many thanks to all who voted! I’ll be posting this Bit Defender Review by this Sunday August 31st (keep in mind it may be sooner, it just depends on my client load this week). Due to popular demand Firefox will be demo’d in the reviews going forward (as well as IE).
Panda Antivirus CLOUD Review
I had a few requests to review Panda’s CLOUD technology and so I did. The review is a 2-parter.
