I don’t care how good or bad the antivirus-engine is (it’s av-comparatives job to decide this :D), my only concern is that CIS (3.5) doesn’t seem to have a HTTP (Proxy?) scanning abilities. You can check this with www.eicar.com.
Since most (if not all) malware comes through email or internet it is important (at least in my opinion) that a security suite like CIS scans the http or e-Mail traffic before it reaches the harddisk. An optimal security suite should work like this (again in my opinion :D):
http and e-mail scanner should scan incoming traffic BEFORE it reaches your harddisk - it should PREVENT malware from reaching your computer
if that fails (I don’t mean failing due to non existance of such a scanner :D)
HIPS (Defense+) should prevent those intruders to do damage to your system
if that fails (or not :D)
The On-Demand scanner should detect and remove those threats by deleting / cleaning the infested file. Furhtermore registry-entries (depends on how good Defense+ did it’s job ) from this malware should be removed.
The first step is a reason why I don’t have a suite like Norton Internet Security installed (it doesn’t offer any “real” http-protection).
If there isn’t any eMail and HTTP-protection - can you explain why? What’s your philosophy of creating a Security Suite like CIS?
Greetings and congrats to your phantastic advancements so far (I’m sure CIS will be much more improved :D).
Since most (if not all) malware comes through email or internet it is important (at least in my opinion) that a security suite like CIS scans the http or e-Mail traffic before it reaches the harddisk. An optimal security suite should work like this (again in my opinion ):
So tell me, Where do you think these "Web scanners" operate? they can't operate in the wires before it touches your pc. ;)
Try downloading Eicar with webshield turned on, try downloading eicar with webshield turned off. Catches it both times eh? ;)
This is what makes comodo different, It’s efficient.
Yea I knew other companies have various “webshields”.
The post seemed to indicate to me that Comodo would stop the
download with it’s “webshield” turned on or off. Confusing.
“What does CIS scan when we surf the internet? Hard disk, memory?”
AFAIK both, AV real time scans all HDD read/write activity, and D+ as well as
Buffer Overflow protection are monitoring memory. For executable’s loading
and BO’s respectively.
) from this malware should be removed.