- May 26, 2014
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I like both,but wonder if there is a strong case to use one over the other? I use to supplement my AV
Was the slowdown still there after the required full scan?Would chose voodooshield. SecureAPlus slowed my machine down quit abit. voodoo has no system impact at all. i use it with bitdefender antivirus and its a light and realy hard combo.
Apex is the offline AI engine incorporated in SecureAPlus.What is Apex, and what is MD?
When I tried FREE SecureAplus (SA) it was based on whitelisting, AI and cloud AV ( (AVG, Avira, ClamWin, Emsisoft, ESET, F-Prot, F-Secure, IKARUS, McAfee, Microsoft Security Essentials, Sophos), while FREE VoodooShield (VS) I tried only uses AI (the cloud whitelist is for paid users only). So on paper (in theory) the free version of AP has an advantage over VS.
And the option to not trust digitally signed applications.SecureAPlus also adds the vulnerability scanner and memory injection protection in the pro version.
And the option to not trust digitally signed applications.
I am using the Essential version and it asked me to upgrade to Pro to use that feature.Is that pro only? I assumed it was available in all versions.
Thanks for the addition. Off course VS has a local whitelist, every anti-executable has one. What is special about the local white list of VS is that it allows NEW programs with same digital signature as already whitelisted programs. This local signature whitelist will allow already programs to update and install additional programs of the same signer. The beauty of a small local signature list, is that it is often a tiny whitelist, this reduces risk of signed malware to a fractional risk.Just a quick correction, Voodoo Shield does have a local whitelist, and the free version DOES check alerts against the whitelist cloud. In fact, the information in the two alert dialog boxes is almost identical. Voodoo Shield just offers Whitelist Cloud result in the slot where SecureAPlus offers the Universal AV scan results. However, real time usage of White List Cloud is only available in the Pro version of VS.
Yes, one of the things that makes VS unique is its tiny, customized whitelist that is automatically (for the most part) built for the end user, so that only items that actually need to be whitelisted, are whitelisted. This drastically reduces the attack surface. And yes, VS does not blindly allow by digital signature alone... it only does so if an item on the whitelist matches the sig.Thanks for the addition. Off course VS has a local whitelist, every anti-executable has one. What is special about the local white list of VS is that it allows NEW programs with same digital signature as already whitelisted programs. This local signature whitelist will allow already programs to update and install additional programs of the same signer. The beauty of a small local signature list, is that it is often a tiny whitelist, this reduces risk of signed malware to a fractional risk.
Yes, sophisticated features have bugs. In all software. You should know this.Lots of problems reported here and over at Wilders.