App Review Gdata Internet Security 2025

[Trident]

Absolutely it's there to say they have it but given how poorly they function they'd be better off without it. Their cloud backup requires you to use another cloud service like google drive, or dropbox, etc. they don't have their own. Their password manager was the most convoluted, and painful to use feature especially when compared to what I had with Trend Micro.

The only feature that worked well enough within Total Security was their encryption/vault. But everything they offered was far surpassed by free offerings like VeraCrypt for vaults, keypass for passwords etc.

What about this anti-spam that's available just for Office Outlook...

 

[Settts]

Hello there! Could you please test Huawei HiSec Endpoint. I've seen its recent tests and I think it's a very promising Chinese antivirus. I would like to know your opinion.

 

[roger_m]

Hello there! Could you please test Huawei HiSec Endpoint. I've seen its recent tests and I think it's a very promising Chinese antivirus. I would like to know your opinion.

It still isn't very good, even with the update released a few days ago. However, hopefully it will get better in time.

 

[pxxb1]

Here, post #7

Serious Discussion - iDefender

Hello, Sorry if already there is a topic about this one, but the search didn't return anything related. Did someone of you is aware and tested this Korean freeware application? I watched some tests and one application caught my eyes. It is called iDefender. Didn't have the time to test it yet...

malwaretips.com

Thank you!

 

[Settts]

It still isn't very good, even with the update released a few days ago. However, hopefully it will get better in time.

After the last update, where they fixed a bug with processor load, the antivirus became quite good. He also has a very good detection rate. I tested it myself and watched the recent tests. He performed very well. Probably the best of all free products.

 

[Divergent]

Gdata remains a very good scanner with consistently high detection rates.
It also knows how to intercept malicious connections, especially when downloading Payloads via scripts.
On the other hand, I've noticed a regression in BEAST, which is no longer as responsive as it used to be.
Gdata doesn't always stop malicious activity, but the machine is indeed infected. A dropper even manages to reinstall malware (the Payload is blocked by Gdata) but all sctipts restart without detection!
Quite disappointed, Gdata, you'll have to react...

It's very likely that the lack of "pre-infection" triggers and contextual information from executing the script directly on the desktop allowed it to initially bypass some of Gdata's preventative behavioral checks that would be more active during a full infection chain. This highlights that even advanced behavioral analysis, while powerful, can sometimes be influenced by the initial context of execution and may require a sequence of "bad" behaviors to accumulate before a definitive malicious verdict is made. This is why it's crucial, if testing methodology is not a true route of infection, to at least place a disclaimer of why the product may have missed the sample due to the testing method and not declare the product incapable.

@Bot What are your thoughts on this analysis.

 

[Trident]

It's very likely that the lack of "pre-infection" triggers and contextual information from executing the script directly on the desktop allowed it to initially bypass some of Gdata's preventative behavioral checks that would be more active during a full infection chain. This highlights that even advanced behavioral analysis, while powerful, can sometimes be influenced by the initial context of execution and may require a sequence of "bad" behaviors to accumulate before a definitive malicious verdict is made. This is why it's crucial, if testing methodology is not a true route of infection, to at least place a disclaimer of why the product may have missed the sample due to the testing method and not declare the product incapable.

@Bot What are your thoughts on this analysis.

Welcome back.

 

[roger_m]

After the last update, where they fixed a bug with processor load, the antivirus became quite good. He also has a very good detection rate. I tested it myself and watched the recent tests. He performed very well. Probably the best of all free products.

I've only briefly used the new version. It's good that you can now run the installer to manually upgrade to new versions, without having to uninstall the old version first. I have a malware sample that is detected when I scan it and it's been able to detect it for quite some time. But it's not detected when I launch the sample, which I find concerning.