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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 877625" data-attributes="member: 83059">I&#039;m pretty sure it&#039;s realtime. Avira wants to benefit too from having a bigger installbase -- their cloud works better with realtime submissions from F-Secure too.Now, is it possible that Avira holds onto some of their advanced cloud features for themselves? Maybe! It wouldn&#039;t be a good move though. F-Secure moved away from AVP (Kaspersky) because they kept giving third parties older engines with worse performance compared to their own product. Now, Kaspersky has stopped doing that, but I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if some of these other engines on license (BitDefender and Avira) don&#039;t give out the best of the best to their partners.However, so far, I&#039;ve not seen any case where Avira detects something but F-Secure does not.NOTE: F-Secure&#039;s VirusTotal engine does not include Avira Cloud (APC) signatures, for some reason. As a result, you&#039;ll see cases where F-Secure on VT says it doesn&#039;t detect something, but grabbing the sample yourself will get a APC detection. Also, APC is not consulted for on-demand scanning. It&#039;s only consulted before executing a new binary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 877625, member: 83059"] I'm pretty sure it's realtime. Avira wants to benefit too from having a bigger installbase -- their cloud works better with realtime submissions from F-Secure too. Now, is it possible that Avira holds onto some of their advanced cloud features for themselves? Maybe! It wouldn't be a good move though. F-Secure moved away from AVP (Kaspersky) because they kept giving third parties older engines with worse performance compared to their own product. Now, Kaspersky has stopped doing that, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of these other engines on license (BitDefender and Avira) don't give out the best of the best to their partners. However, so far, I've not seen any case where Avira detects something but F-Secure does not. NOTE: F-Secure's VirusTotal engine does [B]not [/B]include Avira Cloud (APC) signatures, for some reason. As a result, you'll see cases where F-Secure on VT says it doesn't detect something, but grabbing the sample yourself will get a APC detection. Also, APC is not consulted for on-demand scanning. It's only consulted before executing a new binary. [/QUOTE]

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