Software Review IObit Malware Fighter PRO 10.1

[Digmor Crusher]

Yah, no, anyone who uses Iobit for an antivirus is nuts.

 

[Trident]

The BD engine is almost useless

BD engine is a top quality antivirus engine known to be having some downsides, like increasing RAM usage (in most cases it may not matter). I wouldn’t say it’s useless but Bitdefender offers various engines. For a complete solution they should either all be licensed from them or developed in-house. In this case additional technology is just missing. Just with the antivirus SDK you can only do so much.

 

[Seandc33]

is it time for a retest? The new version has another engine as well. I imagine it's just the signatures without the cloud protection though.

 

[Trident]

is it time for a retest? The new version has avira engine as well. I imagine it's just the signatures without the cloud protection though.

It used to have Bitdefender engine before.

 

[Seandc33]

It used to have Bitdefender engine before.

It still does. I misspoke when I said avira, but it does have it's own engine and cloud now in addition to the bitdefender database. I'm sure the signatures come from somewhere, but I can't figure out exactly where. It also claims to have anti-ransomware protection.

 

[Shadowra]

is it time for a retest? The new version has another engine as well. I imagine it's just the signatures without the cloud protection though.

Yes

 

[Trident]

It still does. I misspoke when I said avira, but it does have it's own engine and cloud now in addition to the bitdefender database. I'm sure the signatures come from somewhere, but I can't figure out exactly where. It also claims to have anti-ransomware protection.

The signatures may be coming from internal malware analysis, I wouldn’t trust these signatures too much though. iObit is not a company that’s security focused.

 

[Kongo]

It still does. I misspoke when I said avira, but it does have it's own engine and cloud now in addition to the bitdefender database. I'm sure the signatures come from somewhere, but I can't figure out exactly where. It also claims to have anti-ransomware protection.

It already uses its own engine for multiple years and the detection capabilities were sub-optimal to say the least

 

[Seandc33]

The signatures may be coming from internal malware analysis, I wouldn’t trust these signatures too much though. iObit is not a company that’s security focused.

It already uses its own engine for multiple years and the detection capabilities were sub-optimal to say the least

I thought it was something new but I guess not.

And I agree with the point on the signatures- not saying where they're coming from is a red flag for me.