Heimdal is a Danish publisher offering its Thor solution.
Explaining that it offers a "Next-Gen" antivirus It is based on the Avira engine.
The product offers different levels of shields such as Threat Prevention or Vigilance that we will talk about later...
Interface: 9,5/10
Heimdal's interface is very nice and adaptable to novices or experts.
Many choices are available, although it is not always explicit (especially when you want to see what a protection corresponds to) but help is available.
Half a point taken away because Heimdal displays NO alert when I ran the malware when testing the URLs.
Protection:9/9 Web / Fake crack 1/1 Remains 21 threats on 558 malware / PC Infected after Malware Pack
Even though Heimdal didn't block any URLs with its web filtering, it was able to block the downloaded samples (I had occasional freezes when I ran while Heimdal analyzed the file and blocked it) . However, there are no alerts, which is a shame.
On the malware pack, Heimdal disappointed me a lot.
Although it uses Avira, it doesn't exploit its full potential (it uses the Avira SDK) and this is a problem of all "assembler" AVs that use third party antivirus engines...
It does not have advanced protections and lets the machine get infected very quickly.
The Emotet Trojan is even present!
Result :
Heimdal : 0
NPE: 14
KVRT : 34 - infection in memory !
ESET : 3 - Infection in memory (Emotet, VBS agent, Multiple Detections)
Recommand : No
System Clean : No system infected
@BigWrench request
Explaining that it offers a "Next-Gen" antivirus It is based on the Avira engine.
The product offers different levels of shields such as Threat Prevention or Vigilance that we will talk about later...
Interface: 9,5/10
Heimdal's interface is very nice and adaptable to novices or experts.
Many choices are available, although it is not always explicit (especially when you want to see what a protection corresponds to) but help is available.
Half a point taken away because Heimdal displays NO alert when I ran the malware when testing the URLs.
Protection:9/9 Web / Fake crack 1/1 Remains 21 threats on 558 malware / PC Infected after Malware Pack
Even though Heimdal didn't block any URLs with its web filtering, it was able to block the downloaded samples (I had occasional freezes when I ran while Heimdal analyzed the file and blocked it) . However, there are no alerts, which is a shame.
On the malware pack, Heimdal disappointed me a lot.
Although it uses Avira, it doesn't exploit its full potential (it uses the Avira SDK) and this is a problem of all "assembler" AVs that use third party antivirus engines...
It does not have advanced protections and lets the machine get infected very quickly.
The Emotet Trojan is even present!
Result :
Heimdal : 0
NPE: 14
KVRT : 34 - infection in memory !
ESET : 3 - Infection in memory (Emotet, VBS agent, Multiple Detections)
Recommand : No
System Clean : No system infected
@BigWrench request
