Question Waredot ultimate

[Trident]

Wasn’t Waredot using Sophos? I am confused…?
Are they using Sophos during the day and Bitdefender white label during the night or something?

 

[Xeno1234]

this is way better than webroot 100%
im actually curious how its going to do against advaned malware though like cmon its super super aggressive its gotta detect stuff

 

[Kongo]

cmon its super super aggressive its gotta detect stuff

Probably the wrong stuff. But yea, it probably detects more than any other AV will during a full system scan.

 

[Xeno1234]

Probably the wrong stuff. But yea, it probably detects more than any other AV will during a full system scan.

To be fair, if its flagging THIS MUCH, its gotta flag malware - its flagging EVERYTHING.

 

[Kongo]

To be fair, if its flagging THIS MUCH, its gotta flag malware - its flagging EVERYTHING.

Reminds me of a Rogue AV that just blocks every software on your system

 

[ForgottenSeer 100397]

222 pieces of malware on a clean install of Windows?

Waredot Ultimate protects the Internet, not your devices!

 

[Xeno1234]

Reminds me of a Rogue AV that just blocks every software on your system

tbh though Kaspersky better

 

[ForgottenSeer 100397]

Can't imagine why you would ever consider this.

His computer might start making jokes about him!

 

[Trident]

Reminds me of a Rogue AV that just blocks every software on your system

They blocked nothing, they just displayed a bunch of fake names such as trojan.porndisplayer and many others. They then displayed messages that if you don’t remove them you will lose data, your system will crash, your device will be slow. It was usually formatted as bullet points and 2 buttons were available — “Buy Now” for $39.95 and “Leave me infected”. It was clever psychology play.

 

[Kongo]

They blocked nothing, they just displayed a bunch of fake names such as trojan.porndisplayer and many others. They then displayed messages that if you don’t remove them you will lose data, your system will crash, your device will be slow. It was usually formatted as bullet points and 2 buttons were available — “Buy Now” for $39.95 and “Leave me infected”. It was clever psychology play.

There are also fake AV's that block every software you are trying to start tho.

 

[Trident]

There are also fake AV's that block every software you are trying to start tho.

I don’t remember them. I remember the Zlob trojan that distributed them used to block access and installation of legit antiviruses.

 

[roger_m]

Waredot website

Hi!
just installed the ultimate version, and...a full scan detected 222 pieces of malware, on a clean installed windows version.
The vpn, need to be turned on, manually on every start.
Secure pay dont work, click on the option, and the program freezes.
No update button, and auto updates are turned off by default.

Based on my testing of Waredot Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security, Internet Security is the only one that is actually working and it does detect malware without false positives for clean files. Waredot Internet Security, does have an update button. But it downloads the signatures when you click it, even if they don't need updating. I bought an Antivirus license, before testing it for a few dollars from Amazon India. Unfortunately they aren't selling IS licences there.

You can see that based on the quick test from @Shadowra that Internet Security is detecting malware.

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[simmerskool]

They blocked nothing, they just displayed a bunch of fake names such as trojan.porndisplayer and many others. They then displayed messages that if you don’t remove them you will lose data, your system will crash, your device will be slow. It was usually formatted as bullet points and 2 buttons were available — “Buy Now” for $39.95 and “Leave me infected”. It was clever psychology play.

I looked at its webpage via amazon, they made it appear as if it was an amazon product with retail price of $5000+ but big sale discount $299. Even if it wasn't a real amazon website, I'm surprised real amazon is not trying harder to getting them to stop misappropriating its name. Or maybe Jeff Bezos is the waredot ceo

 

[roger_m]

I looked at its webpage via amazon, they made it appear as if it was an amazon product with retail price of $5000+ but big sale discount $299. Even if it wasn't a real amazon website, I'm surprised real amazon is not trying harder to getting them to stop misappropriating its name. Or maybe Jeff Bezos is the waredot ceo

The price is in Indian Rupees, not dollars. The stated usual price of 5,204 Rupees is about 62$ USD and 299 Rupees in USD is $3.60. I don't see where they claiming to be an Amazon product.

 

[Freki123]

When I look up the company at trustpilot[dot].com the first thing I see is lots/most of 5 star reviews are from people with 1 (or maybe 2) reviews in total. It has to be a coincidence, right?

 

[roger_m]

When I look up the company at trustpilot[dot].com the first thing I see is lots/most of 5 star reviews are from people with 1 (or maybe 2) reviews in total. It has to be a coincidence, right?

The 1-star reviews are worth reading. For example.

technician is very helpful fix my…​

technician is very helpful fix my problem
thanks. I did not write this review.my computer was hacked

trustpilot.com/review/waredot.com?stars=1

 

[Freki123]

@roger_m I take your one star and raise with another one (sorry for the short OT but I found the review interesting)
I really liked the "they filled out this review" part
hXXps://www.trustpilot.com/users/64f788e5a2ea8e00134bf644

 

[Ink]

Can't imagine why you would ever consider this. Hope you can reimage back to an unpolluted install.

It's beyond me why anyone would support a bad company front.

Victims are getting scammed out of hundreds of dollars and this OP joking about paying $2 for it.

Waredot screams SCAM.

Waredot claims are false, Gizmodo, Engadget, Reddit etc has never mentioned them.
They also sell data recovery services
The high FP rate works in the scammers favor.
Only 12 employees.
New York -- Bulgaria -- India
https://www.linkedin.com/company/waredotsoftware

All, if not most were communicating with someone over the phone. Two reviewers claims to have been scammed out of exactly $429.95, another for $300 with no refund.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/waredot.com

Waredot has only 36 reviews 5-stars and 4 reviews 1-stars.
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/waredot.com

 

[Popolitus]

Can't imagine why you would ever consider this. Hope you can reimage back to an unpolluted install.

i like to test new security software, and i have a pc just that so no warm was made

 

[cartaphilus]

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Well how can it be a clean install of windows when it has iobit and Nvidia folders? Unless I misunderstood what clean install means?

Regardless the detections are a joke but the install is not clean.