herdProtect powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud

[dhwan]

A malware scanning platform powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud.
Should we trust it ?

 

[Piteko21]

Of couse that you should trust but herdprotect has a lot of false positives but in the end is a good tool

 

[Oxygen]

You can trust it, but you can expect lots of false positives.

 

[thepierrezou]

It work verry well , just look at what it want to delete and take care

 

[illumination]

Be careful with those False Positives...

Can I re-enable a file after I have removed it with herdProtect? No. Well not directly in the current release. herdProtect will not delete the file from your PC, instead it simply removes it from your system and renders it in-active and places it in the Quarantine folder (which is a sub-directory of the Scanner (/Program Files/Reason/herdProtect/Scanner/Quarantine). While the file can be restored (we have a tool for this), the registration points cannot be restored at this time. With that said, be very careful with what you end up removing and pay close attention to our recommendations. We are very aggressive at ruling out false positive detections but you should look at each detection before removing it (this is why multi-removal is off by default).

 

[jamescv7]

Of course you can trust it, this program as been under of the process to be legal with permission on handling lots of engines retrieved Virustotal (AFAIK).

But as mentioned by others, more engines then lots of erroneous results may occurred cause some are design to provide aggressive results.

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

It sounds like maintaining a nice big fire, keeping it under control, and then making sure not to get burned (..much)!

Edit: I'll have (1) please.

 

[Exterminator]

It is a very good tool but like others have said it will give you FP's. With any AV scanner there are going to be FP's just be sure what you are doing.Quarantined items can be easily restored.

 

[hjlbx]

It is trustworthy. On my system there were only 2 false positives at the time. There is an option to submit to HerdProtect any false positives.

If you quarantine an item, then it is de-registered on the system...so in the case that you wish it restored, then it's probably going to be broken. Best to perform a clean app install.

It's rather slick in my opinion...even with its current limitations.

The current beta causes EIS to mis-behave on my system (CPU usage from 35 to 90 % continuously).

The current beta is unstable on my W8.1 system...hour glass cursor constantly flickering on-off even with no other apps running.

Contrary to HerdProtect's assurances that there is no impact on system resources (as everything is done in the cloud) the fact is that the scanner is more than a bit rough on the system.

 

[Sasa]

should i trust herdprotect uploading my data to that many anti-malware engines?!

 

[jackuars]

If each antivirus can block up-to or more than 95% of all viruses in the wild (according to statistics), which is what you would normally encounter, I don't get why would you would ever need more than 2.

Unless off-course you download viruses just to feed your hungry computer

 

[cruelsister]

HerdProtect suffers from the same failing as MB and HMP- the inability to successfully clean worm infections. Although it is superior in that it actually (unlike HMP and MB) detects the resident worm and will delete it, it can't detect the worm spawn command file that replicates the worm in case of such deletion. So on reboot after scan and supposed clean, worms are back.

 

[Wihat]

Last night, I scanned PC with Avira PC cleaner nothing was detected , and scanned and again with Herdprotect, it showed me some issues( detected by Avira engine....again)