Rising Antivirus ....Is it Still Alive?!!!

[phyniks]

I saw a review about Risisng Antivirus on Softpedia and it got great score from the reviewer

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Rising-Antivirus-Free-Edition.shtml

The review was updates on Feb 6th 2015 ...

I know their website is down,but I m curious to know if the staff are still working on the project?

 

[Deleted member 21043]

According to the www.rising-global.com website, 'We will still support the product update normally.' suggests that the product is still updated.

There would be no point in someone really downloading the product from the links they provided if it wasn't updated, as it would leave users unprotected from todays latest threats.

Alongside this, they have a toll free telephone number operated by staff, and having this without a up-to-date product might be considered pointless after taking what I wrote above into consideration.

Cheers.

 

[roger_m]

Yes, it's still around and new versions are released quite reguarly , but not recommend due to the poor detection rates.

The more recent product Rising v16 is not yet avilable in English.

 

[Kardo Kristal]

The review was updates on Feb 6th 2015 ...

Incorrect, the date means that software was updated, not the review.

Regards,
Kardo

 

[NullPointerException]

But in my opinion, would you trust a vendor with 2,000 staff (ESET) or 5,000+ staff (Kaspersky...) or Rising which is semi-dead and semi-alive? If you Google "Rising company", you'll get no results relevant to the antivirus. Googling "Rising antivirus company" doesn't give any result except computer-security wiki (a small, ironically semi-dead wiki.) I'd go with ESET instead, irrelevant to what the editors at Softpedia think.

 

[roger_m]

But in my opinion, would you trust a vendor with 2,000 staff (ESET) or 5,000+ staff (Kaspersky...) or Rising which is semi-dead and semi-alive? If you Google "Rising company", you'll get no results relevant to the antivirus. Googling "Rising antivirus company" doesn't give any result except computer-security wiki (a small, ironically semi-dead wiki.) I'd go with ESET instead, irrelevant to what the editors at Softpedia think.

They are very much alive in China, they just no longer have English language websites. In the last two days they have released updated versions of all their antiviruses - Rising Antivirus/Internet Security 2011, Rising Antivirus V16+, and also Rising Firewall. In 2008 they had more than 100 million users in China.

The lack of information available is understandable when they focus solely on the Chinese market these days. If you could read Chinese, I'm sure you would be able to find lots of information on Beijing Rising Information Technology Co.

 

[NullPointerException]

But if they do not care about global or English users, what kinda threats are they going to protect from? Chinese malware?

 

[roger_m]

They don't need to care about global users when they've got such a big domestic userbase. But, Rising has always been known for poor detection, and in part that may be due to concentrating more on detecting Chinese malware.

Having said that, for as long as I've used Rising (starting well before they launched their English language website), it has installed in English. But V16+ has not been translated to English yet.

 

[roger_m]

@saket I was a paid user once, and used the trial version several times, long before there was an English language website (and therefore no way to purchase it if you didn't speak Chinese). I don't believe the detection rate has ever been too good, but the limited HIPs features that were eventually added, I guess makes up for this to a point.

It's a shame that V16 is not availabe in English yet as I would like to try it.

 

[Popolitus]

If u extract the installer from the setup, there is a option for english

 

[roger_m]

@marciocruz Thanks for the tip. I just tried it very briefly, but uninstalled it due to it only being a partial translation, with plenty of the text still in Chinese.

 

[sinu]

If u extract the installer from the setup, there is a option for english

how to get the english version?

 

[roger_m]

how to get the english version?

You can extract the contents of the installer using WinRAR, HaoZip, or another archiver.