Advice Request Does SecureAPlus use the same engines as the standalone antivirus products?

[Omnipotent]

What's the difference between the engines in SecureAPlus vs. the standalone antivirus engines? Also how does the licensing work?

 

[DJ Panda]

SecureAPlus is an AV + Anti-EXE that uses 12 different AVs some of which are pretty popular ESET, Kaspersky, Avaria, ect. The Freemium is a 1 year trial where you can pay with real money or you can do referrals and other things to get points by sharing it on media sites and getting enough points for that to equal a liscense.

 

[Omnipotent]

SecureAPlus is an AV + Anti-EXE that uses 12 different AVs some of which are pretty popular ESET, Kaspersky, Avaria, ect. The Freemium is a 1 year trial where you can pay with real money or you can do referrals and other things to get points by sharing it on media sites and getting enough points for that to equal a liscense.

The engines are pulled off VirusTotal right? I'm curious to know why SecureAPlus would be offering the engines to some of the biggest names in security for free, are the engines in SecureAPlus or (VirusTotal) the same up-to-date engines used in the antivirus vendors standalone products?

 

[DJ Panda]

The engines are pulled off VirusTotal right? I'm curious to know why SecureAPlus would be offering the engines to some of the biggest names in security for free, are the engines in SecureAPlus or (VirusTotal) the same up-to-date engines used in the antivirus vendors standalone products?

The engines should be up to date but my knowledge on SecureAPlus is pretty limited. I really want to try it at some point.

 

[FrankS]

What's the difference between the engines in SecureAPlus vs. the standalone antivirus engines? Also how does the licensing work?

SecureAPlus is not directly comparable to an typical antivirus. It uses the 12 Engines not located on your system instead it's using in the cloud. So if you download a file, SecureAPlus will check the sha-256 code of this file by using the 12 in-the-cloud-engines, to decide whether it's safe or not. The advantage of using cloud-engines is, that you can use your typical antivirus without any compatibility conflicts.
If you just want to use SecureAplus without any other antivirus-program, you can also install SecureAplus with offline antivirus. There is an "real" engine, located on your system, included - by ClamAV.

 

[hamo]

Pls.,

If I do not misunderstand, both of SecureAplus & Voodooshield are useless if I am not connected to the internet.

So that If I insert an infected USB to my PC without connection I will be infected . Am I right or not ?????

 

[FrankS]

Using VoodooShield without internet connection will just block every file on execution - but then you have no information by the 50+ cloud-av scanners whether the file is safe or not so it's useless. SecureAPlus is nearly useless without internet, unless you're using SecureAPlus with ClamAV (offline antivirus). But I don't would try to use SecureAPlus with offline-av together with any other antivirus-solution.

 

[hamo]

Your advice is , to use VS if I am not connected to internet ( At work use many USB without internet connection )

 

[FrankS]

You can use any trusted antivirus where you can download the virus signatures manually.
For example for Windows Defender you can download it here: Get the latest definitions - Microsoft Malware Protection Center and for Avira here: Avira Update | Download Avira Virus Definition File update
Maybe I would add any Behavior-/Exploit-Blocker like Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit, Hitmanpro.Alert or Microsoft EMET.