New free antivirus in town: Baidu Antivirus

[LoftedAphid86]

Notice it says "Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ih"

Avira VirusTotal result:

Not the same, So instead I looked down the list of other vendors to see if I could find a prefix that matches the same as the one displayed in Baidu Antivirus 2013.

Kaspersky VirusTotal result:

I'll let you wonder what it means.

:sleepy:

I have read rumors that Baidu uses both Avira and Kaspersky.

An explanation for the Kaspersky previx is what I'm interested in finding out right now, Either they're legally using a technology by them or it's another one of those "IObit stealing Malwarebytes signatures" scenarios. /s

It wouldn't be the first time that a free antivirus from China used Kaspersky signatures, as Kingsoft's old Chinese-only Keniu (cow) Antivirus included Kaspersky signatures.

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To repeat Earth's earlier post, has anyone tried the HIPS included?

 

[tapoo]

it may be another "IOBit - malwarebytes" event i think...

 

[ZeroDay]

I saw This wilders thread and just thought I'd share.

 

[coranti malware]

just what the world needs another apple noooooooooooo

 

[nishaddesilva]

Anybody still using this?

They seem to be releasing updates very frequently. They have now added a "Release Notes" tab on their site. I can say that their developers are really efficient.

http://antivirus.baidu.com/en/log.php

 

[Petrovic]

http://shadu.baidu.com/
Kaspersky technologies have emerged, so far only in Chinese

 

[Littlebits]

After everyone had assumed that Kingsoft Antivirus was discontinued, a new version just appeared on Softpedia.

No changelogs are posted for Kingsoft Antivirus 2012 SP5.7 but what is even more strange their support forum is gone and their homepage redirects you to http://www.ijinshan.com/ (Chinese).

After Baidu bought Kingsoft Security the last thing I was expecting was a new version of Kingsoft Antivirus.

Does anyone know what is going on with this?

Thanks.

 

[D Bone]

Why would anyone in their right mind want to use this on a production machine? Makes no sense to me.

 

[tapoo]

After everyone had assumed that Kingsoft Antivirus was discontinued, a new version just appeared on Softpedia.

No changelogs are posted for Kingsoft Antivirus 2012 SP5.7 but what is even more strange their support forum is gone and their homepage redirects you to http://www.ijinshan.com/ (Chinese).

After Baidu bought Kingsoft Security the last thing I was expecting was a new version of Kingsoft Antivirus.

Does anyone know what is going on with this?

Thanks.

may be they can not decide about which Brand to use Kingsoft or Baidu, AFAIK, they stopped Kingsoft, as their support forum is stopped responding long time ago, or may be they are thinking about which engine to continue as they have 2 licensed engines in their hand [Avira and Kaspersky]....
may be they continue with Kingsoft with Avira engine, and Baidu with Kaspersky engine.....

NO ONE KNOWS