Battle ZA Next Gen Antivirus vs Kaspersky AV - any difference?

[Tiamati]

I've already used Kaspersky but not ZA. I know it used to have the same engine, so i'd like to know if it has any difference at all between both AV. If so, what are the differences? Ty!!

 

[bayasdev]

I've already used Kaspersky but not ZA. I know it used to have the same engine, so i'd like to know if it has any difference at all between both AV. If so, what are the differences? Ty!!

Kaspersky should perform better because they wrote the engine but I may be wrong if they integrated their own endpoint AV technologies into it

 

[Freud2004]

I don't know if the version of ZA is the 21 engine from Kaspersky. Probably they sell the 20 version and the 21 is exclusive of Kaspersky.

 

[Tiamati]

I don't know if the version of ZA is the 21 engine from Kaspersky. Probably they sell the 20 version and the 21 is exclusive of Kaspersky.

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Good point, but idk

 

[ForgottenSeer 89360]

ZoneAlarm normally uses the latest Kaspersky engine (SDK) and detects the same threats Kaspersky does. However, it uses only the scan engine and not System Watcher or anything else. Just like Bitdefender and Emsisoft or Avira and F-Secure.
They can’t be using old engines, as this might put users at risk.
I see no reason to go for ZoneAlarm, as Kaspersky is a lot lighter and already one of the leaders.

 

[SeriousHoax]

ZoneAlarm normally uses the latest Kaspersky engine (SDK) and detects the same threats Kaspersky does. However, it uses only the scan engine and not System Watcher or anything else. Just like Bitdefender and Emsisoft or Avira and F-Secure.
They can’t be using old engines, as this might put users at risk.
I see no reason to go for ZoneAlarm, as Kaspersky is a lot lighter and already one of the leaders.

Are you sure about the System watcher? @Evjl's Rain tested ZoneAlarm last year and I remember him saying it's the same thing including System watcher but ZoneAlarm is heavier for some reason.

 

[ForgottenSeer 89360]

Are you sure about the System watcher? @Evjl's Rain tested ZoneAlarm last year and I remember him saying it's the same thing including System watcher but ZoneAlarm is heavier for some reason.

ZoneAlarm has their own, proprietary behavioural analysis, based on SandBlast libraries. It might even be better than SystemWatcher, as it’s enterprise-grade, but I haven’t tested it and can’t tell.
It also relies on emulation (amongst other), whilst SystemWatcher works when code is executed in real machine.

Kaspersky doesn’t offer SystemWatcher in their SDK. You can Google “Kaspersky SDK” and you’ll see they only offer scanning engine.
However, very rarely something will bypass Kaspersky’s scanner and the heavy impact of full emulation (SandBlast) in my opinion is totally unneeded.