Advice Request CompuClever Antivirus?

[Rishi]

I came across Compuclever antivirus website recently while browsing, and I've never heard of it.It has not been mentioned here on the forums as well. WOT marks the website as red( dont mind the community based rating) while BD trafficlight considers it okay.Is it legit or scam? If not a scam how good it is?The site has other products also and claims to be an Intel partner under awards section. Any ideas?

Compuclever website:

http://www.compuclever.com/'

 

[Rajat]

My Ad-Guard blocked the website.
Make sure it's not a Fake AV before giving it a try.

 

[illumination]

Looks like a rebranded version of Bitdefender to me from the screen shots on the website.

 

[Rishi]

Virus total 0/66 , ublock origin with malware and spam domains on allowed it through, urlcheck.info 3/13 (CleanMX, Malc0de and MalwarePatrol) mixed bag so far.

 

[Azure]

My Ad-Guard blocked the website.
Make sure it's not a Fake AV before giving it a try.

Adguard blocked it for me as well.

 

[Deleted Member 333v73x]

It is a fake AV because it is on CleanMX and Malc0de and other.

I will try it on a Windows 10 VM with WD and WF enabled.

 

[TheMalwareMaster]

One click security reminds me bitdefender

 

[LabZero]

PC Maestro Cleaner by this company is a fake program so...

 

[jamescv7]

According on some sources, its considered to be malicious prior on the reference of WOT (Web of Trust); + PC Maestro Cleaner added as an evidence of bad background program at all.

 

[CompuClever Support]

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to supply a few facts in response to the original question. My name is Richard, I am the support lead here and want to answer the concerns anyone has about us. I know it can be hard to determine who can be trusted in the world of internet software, there are a lot of comments on the internet from faceless people who may or may not be telling the truth. We want to do what we can to provide the facts people need.

We are a Microsoft Certified Partner company and as part of their requirements they have spoken to our customers and reviewed our applications. The certification means we have passed their requirements for application design, having never distributed a virus in any of our files, and for producing a reliable, genuine set of programs that do what we claim. PC Clean Maestro is not a fake program, it removes clutter files (which you can determine which files to delete), removes unwanted add-ons from common browsers, and when a program is removed, it will let you know of orphaned files and folders that can also be deleted.

Antivirus Plus 2016 is our newest release and a legitimate antivirus program, you can find the test results for it at the Virus Bulletin website where it made their VB100 status in the first testing of the program. The program can be directly compared to other products they have tested so you can get a better idea of how good (or bad) a program is by going through their test results. You can find their main page by searching for "virus bulletin" and then search their site for "compuclever". Or, click the link below for our results:

Virus Bulletin :: Comparative Vendors

If someone wants to get links to the information, or other information, please send them to our support email address which is:

support @ compuclever.com

Just remove the spaces from around the "@" sign. I welcome your questions and hope you will contact us so you can get a better idea of who, and what, we are here.

Richard
CompuClever Customer Support

 

[hjlbx]

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to supply a few facts in response to the original question. My name is Richard, I am the support lead here and want to answer the concerns anyone has about us. I know it can be hard to determine who can be trusted in the world of internet software, there are a lot of comments on the internet from faceless people who may or may not be telling the truth. We want to do what we can to provide the facts people need.

We are a Microsoft Certified Partner company and as part of their requirements they have spoken to our customers and reviewed our applications. The certification means we have passed their requirements for application design, having never distributed a virus in any of our files, and for producing a reliable, genuine set of programs that do what we claim. PC Clean Maestro is not a fake program, it removes clutter files (which you can determine which files to delete), removes unwanted add-ons from common browsers, and when a program is removed, it will let you know of orphaned files and folders that can also be deleted.

Antivirus Plus 2016 is our newest release and a legitimate antivirus program, you can find the test results for it at the Virus Bulletin website where it made their VB100 status in the first testing of the program. The program can be directly compared to other products they have tested so you can get a better idea of how good (or bad) a program is by going through their test results. You can find their main page by searching for "virus bulletin" and then search their site for "compuclever". Or, click the link below for our results:

Virus Bulletin :: Comparative Vendors

If someone wants to get links to the information, or other information, please send them to our support email address which is:

support @ compuclever.com

Just remove the spaces from around the "@" sign. I welcome your questions and hope you will contact us so you can get a better idea of who, and what, we are here.

Richard
CompuClever Customer Support

Your website IP is blacklisted in various web-content filtering databases.

Some of your products are blacklisted by security soft vendors.

Until you clear that all up users will not trust your firm nor its products.

 

[LabZero]

PC Clean Maestro is not a fake program, it removes clutter files

"This is a registry file cleaner that says it will increase a PC's speed. The software is often bundled with various download manager such as Air Installer."

CompuClever PC Maestro Cleaner - Am I infected? What do I do?

 

[jamescv7]

@CompuClever Support: Like other questionable products, we need a clear thought because of promoting a product that are confusing and misleading besides that its been in the blacklist for a long time.

 

[Atlas147]

I definitely agree with the rest of the members, if you want to be seen as a legit AV vendor then you should start by getting your programs cleared from these other vendors
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...f76f58ce451d9ec6efc14aa9a4df8039b83/analysis/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...8be48e5b3ba7577e5acc7d8444f4eb11cee/analysis/

 

[Andy Thompson]

Hi,

This is Andy from CompuClever. I manage communications with our users and partners. I myself was a Windows developer for over 15 years and have been involved with the security industry for the past 10 years. Please allow me to provide some inputs to this discussion in a professional and respectful manner.

1) The original question was regarding CompuClever Antivirus PLUS, so let's get this out of the way first:
CompuClever Antivirus PLUS is a VB100 certified Antivirus solution that received full mark. The product is white-listed by Microsoft to be installed on Windows 10, which forcefully blocks rouge AV.

2) Let me address other concerns stemmed from the original question.
CompuClever is a PC security and utility software company based in Victoria Canada. We are a proud member of the Microsoft Partner Program and the Intel Developer Zone program. All of our software passes Windows Logo certificate tests which ensures they are clean and free of any Malware.

McAfee Siteadvisor Rating: SAFE
compuclever.com | Web Safety Ratings from McAfee SiteAdvisor

Symantec Safe Web Report: SAFE
Report for compuclever.com | Norton Safe Web

3) The center of the concerns expressed above is on the product PCTuneUpMaestro. This is a clean Windows Logo certified PC optimization product. It is NOT a merely registry cleaner, as it provides 10x more features than just cleaning registries. What had caused concerns from some of the AV vendors, like those have been mentioned from VirurTotal was because the products were once distributed through "installers". We here at CompuClever is fully aware of the issue and have been working diligently to exclude resellers and marketers who conduct such practices. We are also working with some of the AV vendors to clear off being categorized as PUP or Adware because our applications by themselves are NOT. Nevertheless, some of the AV vendors are extremely hard to deal with, especially those ones from Russia like Dr. Web.

For issues, concerns, and comments about our products, please contact support@compuclever.com We welcome rational feedback stemmed from first-hand user experience and always respond with facts and respect.

Best regards

Andy Thompson
Director of Communications and Editor-in-Chief
The CompuClever team

 

[roger_m]

@venetapassmore For CompuClever to call the antivirus "CompuClever Antivirus PLUS 2018," is highly misleading. It is not a new product. It is nothing more, than a rebrand of Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2015."

On their website they scored above bitdefender, and Kaspersky. you have to go to their web page and scroll down.

They did not. They scored exactly the same as Bitdefender. There is no way, that a rebrand can score higher than the original product. If you take another look at that web page you will see both products have the same score, but CompuClever listed their product above Bitdefender.

When you talk about the fastest antivirus, I presume you mean the lightest. Panda and K7 are both significantly lighter, than CompuClever/Bitdefender.

 

[Mahesh Sudula]

It is a Bit defender clone.My friend used it a back ago
Their AVC=ATC
Stay away from these software's to have a piece of mind.

 

[Local Host]

@venetapassmore For CompuClever to call the antivirus "CompuClever Antivirus PLUS 2018," is highly misleading. It is not a new product. It is nothing more, than a rebrand of Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2015."


They did not. They scored exactly the same as Bitdefender. There is no way, that a rebrand can score higher than the original product. If you take another look at that web page you will see both products have the same score, but CompuClever listed their product above Bitdefender.

When you talk about the fastest antivirus, I presume you mean the lightest. Panda and K7 are both significantly lighter, than CompuClever/Bitdefender.

This topic is back from 2016

Just because it uses a third-party base (BitDefender), doesn't mean it can't be called new! Not saying people should use this though, I don't recommend BitDefender, I sure as hell won't recommend a fork.

Have a good weekend humans!

 

[roger_m]

Just because it uses a third-party base (BitDefender), doesn't mean it can't be called new!

It does, because it's not new. They're calling a program which was last updated two years ago, CompuClever Antivirus Plus 2018. It gives the wrong impression, that they have released an updated version, when in fact, it is still a rebrand of Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2015 and the last time the product was updated, was in 2016.

 

[roger_m]

I think they are saying that it is updated, and is now V2018 because they made it work with Windows 10.

It was last updated two years ago. Maybe it was updated for Windows 10 compatibility in 2016. But, there have been no product updates since then.