Serious Discussion MalwareFox - K7 Clone

[stonjean633]

I was browsing Softpedia and saw Malwarefox. Never heard of it before so my curiosity kicks in.
To my surprise, it's exactly a rebranded K7 Ultimate. Same Cerebro Engine,Same sigs,different name and pricing.

Just go direct to the original if this is the case.

 

[Shadowra]

It's like PRO32 for Russia—it's K7 but with a different name.
The technology hasn't changed, which is why I've never tried it.

 

[Trident]

I was browsing Softpedia and saw Malwarefox. Never heard of it before so my curiosity kicks in.
To my surprise, it's exactly a rebranded K7 Ultimate. Same Cerebro Engine,Same sigs,different name and pricing.

Just go direct to the original if this is the case.

Well that’s a white label. Nothing new.

 

[stonjean633]

Well that’s a white label. Nothing new.

Yes it's a white label.
I was just wondering why they did it this way instead of licensing the engine.

 

[stonjean633]

It's like PRO32 for Russia—it's K7 but with a different name.
The technology hasn't changed, which is why I've never tried it.

Never tried Pro32. Same exact GUI too?

 

[Shadowra]

Never tried Pro32. Same exact GUI too?

yup

 

[Trident]

Yes it's a white label.
I was just wondering why they did it this way instead of licensing the engine.

Because licensing an engine still requires a fair amount of work around UI, integration, help files, installer, extra features and so on.

White label doesn’t require all that.

 

[stonjean633]

Because licensing an engine still requires a fair amount of work around UI, integration, help files, installer, extra features and so on.

White label doesn’t require all that.

Yes those points are valid and made sense as we are in this cyber field.
But if I'm the consumer and this is all I get, likely I'll stay away from the rebrands.

The ideal way to do it for me is like Emsisoft and GData, the heavy lifting is by BD engine combined with their own. At least they still offer something unique.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

Yes those points are valid and made sense as we are in this cyber field.
But if I'm the consumer and this is all I get, likely I'll stay away from the rebrands.

The ideal way to do it for me is like Emsisoft and GData, the heavy lifting is by BD engine combined with their own. At least they still offer something unique.

Average Joe would never know. They would buy it.


Regarding G Data and Emsisof5, those are not just a BD engine.

 

[stonjean633]

Average Joe would never know. They would buy it.


Regarding G Data and Emsisof5, those are not just a BD engine.

It's like material things.
Nothing beats the original and fake is fake.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

It's like material things.
Nothing beats the original and fake is fake.

I am not sure you can call it fake. A white lab theoretically offers the same functionality and it happens everywhere even in Supermakerkets.

Regarding products that use BD engine, by doing so they cut costs on development and focus on other aspects. For example Emsiosft focused on behavioiraal detection as well as PUP detection and left the heavy lifting to BD engine and they have their in-house detection too.

GDaata follows a similar path and they developed Deep Ray and other in-house modules.

 

[stonjean633]

I am not sure you can call it fake. A white lab theoretically offers the same functionality and it happens everywhere even in Supermakerkets.

Regarding products that use BD engine, by doing so they cut costs on development and focus on other aspects. For example Emsiosft focused on behavioiraal detection as well as PUP detection and left the heavy lifting to BD engine and they have their in-house detection too.

GDaata follows a similar path and they developed Deep Ray and other in-house modules.

I'm not saying it's fake. It's clearly a white label.
Just comparing that it has nothing unique to offer. Emsi and GD offered another engine as additional to the BD engine and so are the rest.

 

[neven1127]

Similar experience. When I recently checked vb100 certified antivirus software page, I saw some new vendors like AssetView (Kaspersky) and Rakeen (Ahnlab).

 

[roger_m]

Never tried Pro32. Same exact GUI too?

No, it has a much better UI, as you can see in the following link. But it doesn't provide better protection.

PRO32 Ultimate Security — антивирус для Windows и Android в Беларуси

PRO32 Ultimate Security — антивирус для защиты Windows и Android в Беларуси. Безопасный интернет, резервное копирование файлов и файервол.

pro32.by

 

[roger_m]

Here are English language screenshots of PRO32. It looks a bit like ESET, as prior to releasing this, they were an ESET distributor.

 

[MWNormanF]

It's like PRO32 for Russia—it's K7 but with a different name.
The technology hasn't changed, which is why I've never tried it.

Pro32 is Russian. The site linked above is their Belarus subsidiary.

 

[MWNormanF]

Here are English language screenshots of PRO32. It looks a bit like ESET, as prior to releasing this, they were an ESET distributor.

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Until 2022 they were an ESET distributor in Russia and the Near Abroad. Then ESET exited the market and they were wiped out. They had to rebuild and in the short term. licensing the Indian K7 AV engine was a sensible solution. Not enough time and money to develop an in house AV engine.