- Feb 7, 2023
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It has already bitten the dust, it’s been about 2 months."and another one bites the dust"
WiseVector Free AI Driven Security
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- Jan 17, 2014
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So I'm late to the party, way late. but still better late than never right?
- May 27, 2013
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Well, they are maintaining their website, that is something, maybe paid version will surface or they simply burned all the venture capital?
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“Website is maintaining”
Guys, please, are you for real?
Guys, please, are you for real?
True, how many of the former Wisevector users have checked whether a driver was left behind, not active but waiting to be misused. Hackers don't need to BYO vulnarable driver as the driver's are already signed and just laying there whispering 'activate and abuse me'Backdoors are also useful. Surprise!
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- Mar 17, 2023
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Wow. I am sorry late to the game but what did I miss? Was WV a Chinese gov spyware masquerading as an actual removal tool?
The developer had to fend off this accusation before. Example I mean: the chief developer charmed so many here and at Wilders, gathering many supporters and testers. Some felt "used" afterward as the developer then let the product slide and gave a terse, canned explanation only after several months of radio silence--saying the focus was now on enterprise products. I think like the Kaspersky thing there was concern that WV could be subverted by its respective government. I just don't think in this case there were enough users of the product to justify that. Certainly WAY less than Kaspersky's base.
There's another Chinese product here as well: Huorong Internet Security. Is that maintained as well? Anyone still using it?
It's hard not to draw a line or two between WiseVector and the TikTok revelation, especially with current news events.
Edit: I just REALLY noticed this for the first time. WiseVector never got a Developer's title on his avatar at Wilders. He had the "Registered Member" designation, like almost everyone else. You can see this in the embedded link in the "Example" above.
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And Qihoo 360 TS
You should ask @Anthony Qian and @ShenguiTurmi , I think they must know if these softwares are still active or not
My little bit sarcastic post about vulnerable or obsolete driver misuse, was not because I don't trust Russian or Chinese software. I prefer EU software over five eyes software and five eyes software over software from other countries. My tongue in cheek response was triggered by the suspicion WiseVectorX initially faced here at MT, but as @plat mentioned as soon as the WVX representative said all is well, this suspicion turned around into affection.
I did not understand the process and had to laugh about it. It is like asking a car salesmen whether he can be and his cars can be trusted? I can't imagine any car sales man telling their customers: "No you can't trust and our cars are very unreliable". How many people would have volunteered to test drive WVX when the representative had said that? Off course he/she would be telling that all is well.
I did not understand the process and had to laugh about it. It is like asking a car salesmen whether he can be and his cars can be trusted? I can't imagine any car sales man telling their customers: "No you can't trust and our cars are very unreliable". How many people would have volunteered to test drive WVX when the representative had said that? Off course he/she would be telling that all is well.
- Apr 17, 2021
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Huorong is well maintained, with database updates released on a daily basis. Huorong’s user base is much larger than WV.
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It is important to note that unless the software is reverse engineered (and even if it is), it is very difficult to say what WiseVector or any other AV for that matter, collects and how it is used after so it is all speculations.
However, I find it extremely suspicious that they appeared out of the blue, made a lot of noise and then disappeared like smoke. They are saying enterprise version now will be released but I have doubts. In an ocean of enterprise products, which “enterprise” will pay solid amount for WiseVector?
And also, they suspended the home version but where is the enterprise one? There is no beta version/prototype or anything to suggest that such version is about to be released.
In my opinion, there was a reason for this software to be released and maintained for a certain period of time. The software has now served its purpose and we won’t hear about WiseVector again.
@Anthony Qian do you have any news or still the same situation?
The product was talked about here since late 2018
So it isn’t like the product appeared one day and the next year it was gone.
So it isn’t like the product appeared one day and the next year it was gone.
- Apr 13, 2013
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I'm sure quite a few (MT folk are a suspicious bunch). It's barely an inconvenience to follow what is being dropped during an install process, and also to monitor telemetry.
And actually WV worked quite well even in the absence of a network connection.
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That’s absolutely impossible, layers and layers of encryption can be implemented there “for security reasons” and what you will “monitor” will be similar to opening an *.exe with notepad. If anybody believes they have knowledge of antivirus telemetry, they need to stop living in a lie. Reading the NextDNS logs hardly accounts for cracking the telemetry.
- Apr 16, 2017
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fwiw, I uninstalled wvsx from a win10 about 2 months ago, and it did NOT go gently. Made me suspect...True, how many of the former Wisevector users have checked whether a driver was left behind, not active but waiting to be misused. Hackers don't need to BYO vulnarable driver as the driver's are already signed and just laying there whispering 'activate and abuse me'
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Okay, so you could check that WVX removed everything it installed with your file change logs?
Must be reassuring for people who installed WVX and did not use an uninstaller to monitor what files WSX dropped and what registry keys were changed. Thanks for reporting al is safe
As posted earlier I was just teasing former WVX fans
- Mar 29, 2018
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Likewise. Some folks just don't appreciate the humor. A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse!As posted earlier I was just teasing former WVX fans
- Apr 17, 2021
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No further news about WV at the moment… Btw, some testers test WV with the old detection engine against the latest threats with a low detection rate on VT, and WV could successfully prevent infection using ML and behavior detection.
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