App Review Zemana Anti-Malware Review

[spaceoctopus]

 

[Parsh]

Zemana usually blocks many suspicious files from the internet with those yellow alerts.
A little stuff to demonstrate and long videos... this needs to improve along with the URL testing and setting the dependencies. We do not know whether some links are hosting just adware or it's more than that.
The detection ratio was pretty impressive. Thanks for sharing the video @spaceoctopus!

 

[Deleted Member 3a5v73x]

I wonder why Malware Geek didn't enable Pandora Cloud-Sandbox Technology. I don't see realtime protection results valid, even if Zemana did a great job at protecting the system.

 

[spaceoctopus]

Zemana usually blocks many suspicious files from the internet with those yellow alerts (probably Pandora).
A little stuff to demonstrate and long videos... this needs to improve along with the URL testing and setting the dependencies. We do not know whether some links are hosting just adware or it's more than that.
The detection ratio was pretty impressive. Thanks for sharing the video @spaceoctopus!

Yeah, really impressive for a small software like that. Particularly good in the zero-day area.

 

[mekelek]

not bad but Pandora would have definitely improve the result.

 

[spaceoctopus]

I wonder why Malware Geek didn't enable Pandora Cloud-Sandbox Technology. I don't see realtime protection results valid, even if Zemana did a great job at protecting the system.

He stated in the video that he tested the product on default settings. Then later he will do a specific video against Ransomwares where he will turn this setting ON

 

[Parsh]

I wonder why Malware Geek didn't enable Pandora Cloud-Sandbox Technology. I don't see realtime protection results valid, even if Zemana did a great job at protecting the system.

Ah, that 4 minute introduction. I just hurried through it. We won't call a test without Pandora complete, even though he simulated the default settings for common users.

He stated in the video that he tested the product on default settings. Then later he will do a specific video against Ransomwares where he will turn this setting ON

I've seen quite some tests again RW and it fails against some or the other RW variants out there, with partial or full encryption.
Hopefully Zemana Ultimate brings in big improvements as opposed to plain addition of components.

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

Hello,very nice video,I guess it was not money out the window when I purchased a 3-year license.

 

[frogboy]

I am pleased I have three-lifetime licences for Zemana, two for ZAL and one for ZAM.

 

[Atlas147]

Looks like ZAM had great results with very high detection ratios but I think one of the main problems I faced with ZAM is that it was detecting files which aren't common as suspicious as well, and it was doing it quite often which leads me to think that ZAM is just taking every file that isn't used commonly and labelling them as suspicious. The false positives for this as a result is through the roof for me.

 

[Parsh]

Hello,very nice video,I guess it was not money out the window when I purchased a 3-year license.

As I write here, I can see the "Other threads that you may like.." suggestions pointing to some ZAM giveaways
When did you purchase the license? Hopefully, Zemana will allow the paid licensees a free transition to Zemana Ultimate.

 

[Parsh]

Looks like ZAM had great results with very high detection ratios but I think one of the main problems I faced with ZAM is that it was detecting files which aren't common as suspicious as well, and it was doing it quite often which leads me to think that ZAM is just taking every file that isn't used commonly and labelling them as suspicious. The false positives for this as a result is through the roof for me.

Exactly. The case with scripts is that Zemana is quite aggressive in blocking such script files on execution, stating them to be suspicious; we have seen this earlier. However with the executables, the results are fluctuating.
The only reason I avoid ZAL in real-time - no interactive alerts!

 

[mekelek]

I am pleased I have three-lifetime licences for Zemana, two for ZAL and one for ZAM.

im pretty sure even my dog owns at least 2 lifetime(or 1 year can't remember) free licenses

 

[frogboy]

im pretty sure even my dog owns at least 2 lifetime(or 1 year can't remember) free licenses

You have a lucky dog then.

 

[mekelek]

You have a lucky dog then.

well the amount of free giveaways Zemana had the past few months, it's unusual not having one

 

[Atlas147]

Exactly. The case with scripts is that Zemana is quite aggressive in blocking such script files on execution, stating them to be suspicious; we have seen this earlier. However with the executables, the results are fluctuating.
The only reason I avoid ZAL in real-time - no interactive alerts!

Exactly! I just created a bat file to run my backup programs more smoothly and somehow that got detected as suspicious too! And the lack of interactive detections are the worst, having to go into the program itself to restore and add to exclusions every time it blocks something safe is just too much work for me.

 

[ispx]

well the amount of free giveaways Zemana had the past few months, it's unusual not having one

avg too has been having 1 year extended trials since 2014.

Spoiler: avg

AVG | huawei

 

[spaceoctopus]

Let's hope that the ZAM Ultimate will be something good and that takes users requests in consideration. It's been a very long wait now.

 

[spaceoctopus]

I am pleased I have three-lifetime licences for Zemana, two for ZAL and one for ZAM.

These are good investments for sure.

 

[Transhumana]

im pretty sure even my dog owns at least 2 lifetime(or 1 year can't remember) free licenses

I guess I'm one of the rare people who doesn't have one as I somehow slept through their free giveaways but I'll keep my fingers crossed they remain generous.