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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 97327" data-source="post: 1015083">[1] Fully agree, with the sliders on HIGH it was a perfect whitelist approach with a powerful behavioral tracker/blocker as post infection defense. Problem was that PrevX at that time did not dare to set the defaults on higher values. Using PrevX on default settings it was just a mediocre cloud blacklist AV with a post infection rollback/recovery which was not 100% reliable[SPOILER=&quot;Default settings&quot;][ATTACH=full]271346[/ATTACH]I remembered, I set the heuristics AFTER Age/Popularity and all other values on HIGH. Worked like a charm and was ultra light[/SPOILER][2] True. PrevX argued that traditional &quot;real world&quot; tests (of AV-Test and AV-Comparatives) did not work, because the post-infection rollback/recovery was not taken into account in these tests. My impression of PrevX being a weak AV was set by security bloggers and video channels which showed often that the cloud blacklist missed a lot of samples and that the post infection recovery of PrevX did not work. PrevX also dismissed the tests of Youtube (and MT) testers, stating that the post-infection recovery was not designed to deal with 10 or more simultaneous infections. (and this was also not a real world scenario for the average PC-user).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 97327, post: 1015083"] [1] Fully agree, with the sliders on HIGH it was a perfect whitelist approach with a powerful behavioral tracker/blocker as post infection defense. Problem was that PrevX at that time did not dare to set the defaults on higher values. Using PrevX on default settings it was just a mediocre cloud blacklist AV with a post infection rollback/recovery which was not 100% reliable [SPOILER="Default settings"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1671186473183.png"]271346[/ATTACH] I remembered, I set the heuristics AFTER Age/Popularity and all other values on HIGH. Worked like a charm and was ultra light [/SPOILER] [2] True. PrevX argued that traditional "real world" tests (of AV-Test and AV-Comparatives) did not work, because the post-infection rollback/recovery was not taken into account in these tests. My impression of PrevX being a weak AV was set by security bloggers and video channels which showed often that the cloud blacklist missed a lot of samples and that the post infection recovery of PrevX did not work. PrevX also dismissed the tests of Youtube (and MT) testers, stating that the post-infection recovery was not designed to deal with 10 or more simultaneous infections. (and this was also not a real world scenario for the average PC-user). [/QUOTE]

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