Fortinet is a business/corporate firewall company so you expect their webfilter to be great Having worked with their firewalls and fortios they are solid units in protection terms but have a lot of bugs. They are the budget version compared to cisco but their forticlient is miles better than cisco's amp client. The thing fortinet lacks is a large install base, unlike cisco they have a lot less units in production and see a lot less threats.
FortiClient 6.0.9.0277
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It is advised to take all reviews with a grain of salt. In extreme cases some reviews use dramatization for entertainment purposes.
- Jul 29, 2018
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I perfectly agree with you, but FortiClient's signatures are much better than Cisco's.
And sometimes having a small market share is not that bad, hackers won't bother to find a bypass for you
I perfectly agree with you, but FortiClient's signatures are much better than Cisco's.
And sometimes having a small market share is not that bad, hackers won't bother to find a bypass for you
In some respect that is true but security by obscurity has never worked. If the target is high value attackers will find a way in.
- Apr 3, 2019
- 70
Last time I tried Forticlient on Windows, it was too heavy on resources but signature detection & web protection was very good with my samples. Good to know that it is now light on resources.
Also, it is now probably the last free software to run on Linux. I installed their version for Ubuntu last year and it was pretty good.
Also, it is now probably the last free software to run on Linux. I installed their version for Ubuntu last year and it was pretty good.
- Jan 30, 2013
- 210
Hello all I have not heard about this fortinet until coming upon this section today and reading it and since i am still at home bored
I thought let me give this a shot and all i have to say is i wish i new about this earlier a av program that is simple and has a lot of good
options to protect the home user and does not try to sale you everything except the { Kitchen Sink} it feels as light as Eset to me
install was fast and the program is not heavy at all. To bad they do not charge a fair price for home users and add a firewall and sandbox so I
installed tiny wall with it and must say a great combo together light setup on system and this is on a Asus Tuf piece of crap {that is another story} i have tried a lot past two weeks and believe it or not (Thor premium version ) also felt light on the machine these are the two that feel light
also Kaspersky felt light but it seems it never updates all the time automatically seems i also had to do it manually {that bothered me} maybe because i am a
citizen goverment intercepts connection ???? who knows
I have not heard about this fortinet until coming upon this section today and reading it and since i am still at home boredI thought let me give this a shot and all i have to say is i wish i new about this earlier a av program that is simple and has a lot of good
options to protect the home user and does not try to sale you everything except the { Kitchen Sink} it feels as light as Eset to me
install was fast and the program is not heavy at all. To bad they do not charge a fair price for home users and add a firewall and sandbox so I
installed tiny wall with it and must say a great combo together light setup on system and this is on a Asus Tuf piece of crap
{that is another story} i have tried a lot past two weeks and believe it or not (Thor premium version ) also felt light on the machine these are the two that feel lightalso Kaspersky felt light but it seems it never updates all the time automatically seems i also had to do it manually {that bothered me} maybe because i am a
citizen goverment intercepts connection ???? who knows
- Mar 16, 2019
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This video reminded me that everything sounds threatening in Russian
(Sorry Russian members of the community 
)
- Jul 29, 2018
- 566
Signatures are quite good, it just doesn't have a behavior blocker, so it's weak against zero-days.
Plus, in these videos malware is already in the PC, while in the real life 99% of malware comes from either a browser or a mail. And FortiClient can stop nearly any bad website if properly configured.
If you are paranoid, pair it with OSArmor or Comodo Firewall and you are fine
I understand this, but I think that an antivirus product has to be good in all layers and not depend on just one, like the web module that is not perfect in any antivirus, so I do not recommend fortclient, comodo products yet they are weak, the windows firewall is more than enough, and you won't be bothered. I recommend OSarmor.Signatures are quite good, it just doesn't have a behavior blocker, so it's weak against zero-days.
Plus, in these videos malware is already in the PC, while in the real life 99% of malware comes from either a browser or a mail. And FortiClient can stop nearly any bad website if properly configured.
If you are paranoid, pair it with OSArmor or Comodo Firewall and you are fine
- May 4, 2018
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I would always recommend Forticlient, as a previous member stated, their was malware already present within the hosts computer, Forti's web capabilities are superb. If you want a protection from other aspect of computing security look for a suite, an AV will never cover this hence why companies have different tiers.
~LDogg
Its mechanism is weak and its behavior module is non-existent, for just protection on the web a browser extension is sufficient, no antivirus will make sense if you take this into account, you need to have a strong set. Just my opinion.
- May 4, 2018
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One's entitled to an opinion as you can backup your rhetoric. I've always found their product to be top notch in testing and real life scenarios. However it needs to be paired with something else such OSArmor as an anti-exploit like pairing, the signatures are actually decent. It's only main weakness is 0day files.
~LDogg
- Aug 8, 2015
- 76
i had to uninstall this software with some codes on terminal. There was not any other chance. You can install it normally but hard to uninstall . i had to check some websites to uninstall it wtf.
- Jul 29, 2018
- 566
That's strange, I have installed and uninstalled it several times without problems by geek uninstaller
- May 13, 2017
- 2,692
I was just about to upgrade my laptop to 2004, so I tried to uninstall it and no luck. I had to stop it, then remove files and services manually.
- Aug 21, 2018
- 505
Hello,
Open command prompt as admin and use the following command to uninstall:
wmic product where "name like 'Forti%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive
Computer should reboot after uninstall is finished.
Worked for me last time i tried above command.
Kind regards,
-sepik
Open command prompt as admin and use the following command to uninstall:
wmic product where "name like 'Forti%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive
Computer should reboot after uninstall is finished.
Worked for me last time i tried above command.
Kind regards,
-sepik
I noticed that Forticlient has anti-exploit capability. Does that mean it would conflict with MBAE? If it's a true anti-exploit, then I think that they would almost certainly conflict.
Phil
Phil
- May 29, 2018
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thats enterprise stuff on free version, i could not even use it , youre better off using mbae wich is true anti-exploit indeed
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that the anti-exploit is nonfunctional in the free version. Correct?
Phil
Signatures are quite good, it just doesn't have a behavior blocker, so it's weak against zero-days.
Plus, in these videos malware is already in the PC, while in the real life 99% of malware comes from either a browser or a mail. And FortiClient can stop nearly any bad website if properly configured.
If you are paranoid, pair it with OSArmor or Comodo Firewall and you are fine
Configured how?
So it can`t work paired with another Av, i thought that was just the thing with Forticlient.
Is it still updated as a product?
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