AV-Lab's test of FREE malware scanners

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Are you using one of the top scorer on-demand scanners?

  • Yes

    Votes: 57 76.0%
  • No

    Votes: 18 24.0%

  • Total voters
    75
1.75 worked great, fast, simple, effective in so many areas. They tried to become everything, as you said, and as a result are now good at nothing. I think they need to go back to their roots and stop with the nonsense they have going on now. But I fear they've lost their way too far to turn back.

We all love 1.75, all they needed to do was slap a better interface on 1.75 and we'd all flock to it. Then work on the signatures, heuristics and other crap and not bloat it up and they'd have a great product again.

Couldn't have said it better myself! Indeed, version 1.75 was the best. Version 2 wasn't ok and now version 3......Let's just say I'd like for them to go back to their roots. Get their detection rates back up there and BAM they could be right back up there with the 'big boys' or the top 'best' in their competition.
 
Is Zemana Antimalware still available as a free on demand scanner? The reason I ask is because not long ago quite a few people here were raving about how good it was. Is that still the case and how does it compare against EEK?
Yes it´s free as on demand scanner and I found it like the best in its category. I love EEK, but it is very slow in my system, so I go with Zemana in first place. Both, IMO, are equal in quality and the only difference I find is the speed of scanning
 
Yes it´s free as on demand scanner and I found it like the best in its category. I love EEK, but it is very slow in my system, so I go with Zemana in first place. Both, IMO, are equal in quality and the only difference I find is the speed of scanning

Exactly the same here. EEK very slow scan and also really slowed things down on my computer and it's also a pretty big download.
 
As usual, a useless review because they left out NPE, Zemana and Hitman...... which would score at the top.... I wonder why. ;)
No...the test isn't useless and the key-word is "if"...the producer must be interested to join this test and than perhaps should agree to some terms. If no...no test...no result.
 
As usual, a useless review because they left out NPE, Zemana and Hitman...... which would score at the top.... I wonder why. ;)

AVLab charges a fee for the testing. Not all security soft publishers know about the testing and not all of the ones that do know about the testing are willing to pay the fee. Finally, not all security soft publishers are interested in participating in the testing and refuse the invitation to participate for a wide range of reasons.

Not useless, just technically not comprehensive. Not AVLab's fault.

AVLab is not in the business of testing for free so users can know what security softs are best. Neither are any of the other AV test labs. Besides "What is best AV" based solely upon a single test result in time is not a reliable measure from user to user and system to system. "What is best AV" is a combination of both objective measures and subjective considerations.
 
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Bummer to see MBAM down the list.. Used it a lot a few years back. Was top notch. They made it into a cash machine for them...
 
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Good job Emsisoft!
Or Bitdefender.
Please, Emsisoft AM isn't only Bit Defender. :)
Emsisoft uses 2 engines, A (our own) which is maintained by our Malware Analysis Team, where we add all malware (especially PUP & ransomware) we found by ourselves; and B (Bitdefender).
When BD releases a signature, if we have it already (which happen quite often), we just clean it from our own engine to avoid duplicates and increase the efficiency of EAM.

Note we also implement in our own engine some custom malware removal code for specific infections, so why EEK score very well and is praised and used by many IT personnel.

An in-depth look at the Emsisoft scanner technology
 
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Please, Emsisoft AM isn't only Bit Defender. :)
Emsisoft uses 2 engines, A (our own) which is maintained by our Malware Analysis Team, where we add all malware (especially PUP & ansomware) we found by ourselves; and B (Bitdefender).
When BD releases a signature, if we have it already (which happen quite often), we just clean it from our own engine to avoid duplicates and increase the efficiency of EAM.

Note we also implement in our own engine some custom malware removal code for specific infections, so why EEK score very well and is praised and used by many IT personnel.

An in-depth look at the Emsisoft scanner technology

Indeed very nice! Smart to remove from one so that you do not have duplicates - makes things run a lot faster too! Keep up your great work! I'm truly impressed.
 
bit OT but who remembers this grandpa? lol

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I remember, it was the best at that time, Adaware + Spybot S&D = adware/spyware free combo :p

You know, sometime I wish someone or some companie would come along and buy the rights and re-tool these old freebies for todays online world

hint hint/ wink wink

maybe put in a word at Emsisoft as community manager lol jkjk
 
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