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[ran_golde]

Seems to run rather nice, 2 issues :

1. No excludes for files - thus sched scans are stopping at same false positives over and over (and unlike Avira, resolution is not fast ...).
2. Stop scan of archived file (if enabled) - won't work (I waited over 30 minutes) if system is low on virtual mem. Resolved by boot.

It detected few missed (by Avira and most free online scanners, including KAV, Bitdefender, Trend Micro and more) trojans.

All in all  I like it and it will remain my dev box AV ("production" runs Avira).

[jeims]

Hello again everyone

Since I was running the 6 month trial at work. Like 2 weeks ago it updated to Rising 2009. As soon as I'll get the chance I'll be comenting on the new features. But for now, a teaser. 

[JamesFrance]

I don't think I want to try this after reading:

http://remove-malware.com/anti-malware-reviews/rising-antivirus-prevention%E2%80%A6yikes%E2%80%A6/

[jeims]

Hijacking is usually a spyware category. Most brands of known antiviruses fail to protect well in this area. Still this test doesn't explain how it was done and what settings were used. I think that if you tweak Rising's settings you can pretty much be protected against usual hijacks.

Anyways leaving that aside I'm going to talk about Rising 2009:

One nice feature that's introduced in this version is autorun protection. Users will receive an alert when an aplication launches automatically. For example a usb with an autorun.

http://a.imagehost.org/view/0601/Rising_2009_auto_run_protection

The vulnerability scan seems to have been renamed to Rising Antispyware and is a separate download. I don't know if it's free. For those that don't know. The vulnerability scan was a feature that scanned your OS to see if you missed important security updates from Microsoft.

Another nice feature is that it can create a boot disk now

http://a.imagehost.org/view/0620/Rising_2009_tools


It has a new back up boot sector option.

http://a.imagehost.org/view/0393/Rising_2009_Boot_sector

Program Start up, Aplication Protection and Aplication Access Control have been merged in just Aplication Control where you put rules to aplications there, registry permisions, file/folder permissions etc.

http://a.imagehost.org/view/0084/Rising_2009_aplication_control

The System Reinforcement alerts are different now

http://a.imagehost.org/view/0570/Rising_Alerts

And so Virus Alerts. Going to the details will get you to the Rising website for info about the virus. In chinese though >.<

http://a.imagehost.org/view/0712/Rising_Alerts2



Rising 2009 seems to be good so far. The engine doesn't seem to have changed much since scanning is a bit slow still. Another thing I don't like is that the Active Defense /System Reinforcement alerts have a countdown that seems to go faster than in Rising 2008. It doesn't leave you much time to analize the alert. But other than that it's still a competitive product.

[Grail]

I tried it causing problems with my email could not connect, even tried what they suggested was not working.  Also causing problems with my digital mouse on my laptop - synoptic.

So I uninstalled it and went back to using Avast.  I tired AVG 8.0 it was giving me false positives.  Any one tried Comodo Internet Security how is the antivirus compared to AVG, AVAST, AVIR or Rising.  To bad they are not doing this in a portable version

[jeims]

I never had your problems I have to admit that the email scanning is slow but I'm always able to send/receive emails. About the synaptics driver, I most of the time disable it from booting because it's a waste of resources.

Comodo IS is mostly a hips aplication. 

[ronnycopeh]

Been using for over a month now on both mine and my niece computer, have a few friends sold, its been great no fp, so slow down and most of all no virus, I run it along with comodo firewall and its the best I've used so far, to me it beats avast hands down. I am using the paid version.

[Petit]

I'v use this for 3-4 month and everything works fine.
I like it's update module It's fast and really invisible.
And they have a good free email support to.

However I can't find where to send the miss-detected file to them.

[Kyle]

Is there anyway to change the pop-up time of  the application protection agent? <-- not sure about the name.. Haven't used for a while.
I remember it only being popup up for about 10 seconds.

[ronnycopeh]

No popups here only on new installs and no FP, email scanning is good no slow downs, I am usinf the Rising Interent Security

[Xman]

No popups here only on new installs and no FP, email scanning is good no slow downs, I am usinf the Rising Interent Security

Hi Ronny, I started a thread on Rising AV a ways back, I really liked it and still do but now I'm a dedicated CIS user I've yet to be infected and more than likely never will be since using it, Rising has its merits but I've come to understand the true power of CIS and especially what's to come that Rising will never be able to offer...
Cheers
Xman

[ronnycopeh]

Xman, thanks for your reply, I love the rising software, no aggravation and no virus and it also have HIPS, updates and silent and daily, overall the best I have used. Comodo is still my second choice. I have the paid version of Rising internet security, running along side Spyware terminator and all is good. I'll continue to check the newer versions and I do avast. I see they have a beta 5 out only in the free version. Thanks for the comments

[Petit]

They're introducing a new version (2010) on their Chinese site at http://Http://www.rising.com.cn

[giraffe]

Yesterday I downloaded RAV to try as Avast seems to be slowing down apps and browsing - I'll see if Avast 5 is any better.

Installing RAV was a bit more complex than Avast was, but careful reading of the options gave a fairly clear idea of which to choose.
The PC does seem more agile and browsing is snappier. Does RAV actually scan browsing as Avast does?
Although I've turned on everything there's no indication of when RAV is doing something - I like Avast's spinning ball as it shows that something is happening (even if it's only the ball spinning!).

So far RAV seems OK, but of course it's difficult to know if nothing happens!

[Petit]

RAV didn't scan web traffic but can block known malware site.

I like an animated avast ball to 

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