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<blockquote data-quote="Muddy7" data-source="post: 1015030" data-attributes="member: 24236"><p>Sounds pretty accurate though I should add that their whitelist component has always seemed to me to be even more fundamental to their proprietary cybersecurity architecture than their blacklist.</p><p></p><p>Also, I've always sided with Prevx on their assertion that professional testing protocols (as they currently exist) just do not work well with their AV approach. In fact, I'm surprised that you say that Prevx always performed very weakly in tests as, as I recall matters, unlike Webroot they resolutely refused to submit to any tests except for those by SE Labs</p><p></p><p>On a personal note, my experience was that before moving to Prevx (subsequently of course acquired by Webroot) I had <u>a ton</u> of malware problems, and from the day I changed I <u>never</u> encountered a malware problem again.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As for Anthony's comments above, I'm no expert on AVs, indeed I'm more or less illiterate regarding anything to do with computer coding <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😨" title="Fearful face :fearful:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f628.png" data-shortname=":fearful:" />, but I do remember one key Prevx developer (Jacques Erasmus if I recall correctly) explaining in a Prevx blog article written IIRC sometime around 2009 on how a key part of their malware detection and removal procedure was forcing a BSOD at various stages of the malware cleanup, triggering on each occasion a fresh Prevx scan, until the process of the malware cleanup was complete — and that it was important to let this process run right through to the end. I of course can't speak for whether what he is describing above is this normal BSOD process or if he is, rather, speaking of irregular BSODs that screwed up his computer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muddy7, post: 1015030, member: 24236"] Sounds pretty accurate though I should add that their whitelist component has always seemed to me to be even more fundamental to their proprietary cybersecurity architecture than their blacklist. Also, I've always sided with Prevx on their assertion that professional testing protocols (as they currently exist) just do not work well with their AV approach. In fact, I'm surprised that you say that Prevx always performed very weakly in tests as, as I recall matters, unlike Webroot they resolutely refused to submit to any tests except for those by SE Labs On a personal note, my experience was that before moving to Prevx (subsequently of course acquired by Webroot) I had [U]a ton[/U] of malware problems, and from the day I changed I [U]never[/U] encountered a malware problem again. As for Anthony's comments above, I'm no expert on AVs, indeed I'm more or less illiterate regarding anything to do with computer coding 😨, but I do remember one key Prevx developer (Jacques Erasmus if I recall correctly) explaining in a Prevx blog article written IIRC sometime around 2009 on how a key part of their malware detection and removal procedure was forcing a BSOD at various stages of the malware cleanup, triggering on each occasion a fresh Prevx scan, until the process of the malware cleanup was complete — and that it was important to let this process run right through to the end. I of course can't speak for whether what he is describing above is this normal BSOD process or if he is, rather, speaking of irregular BSODs that screwed up his computer. [/QUOTE]
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