is it worth buying full version of superantispyware??

system · October 19, 2008, 11:15pm

I am not back just poking my head in. CIS has got a long way to go. The anti virus as of right now is extremely poor in detection. Keep your set up of Avast and Comodo. Your current set up will provide you far better protection then CIS ever could. Honestly.

frogger · October 20, 2008, 12:19am

wow i thought there were allot of samples in CIS last i read melih said over 40,000 or something like that. ok well if i ever do update to CIS should i update SAS to proactive defense as well?.

system · October 20, 2008, 12:41am

Comodo Antivirus has along haul to catch up to the power of Avast for free av’s.

Info-Sec · October 20, 2008, 2:00am

Unfortunatly 40,000 is not a lot. However CIS really does provide enough detection as an antivirus is well, not as needed as it used to be. Either threats surpass it, or with safe surfing you dont need it. To be on the safeside, use avast and comodo as previously stated.

frogger · October 20, 2008, 2:51am

that sucks i thought i was going to finaly ride myself of avast memory hog lol. i was looking forward to a all in one sweet

system · October 20, 2008, 3:13am

Frogger are you nuts. Avast is no where near a memory hog. Its the best free av out there. What planet are you from. Back to your topic. Just use SAS ans MBAM on demand.

system · October 20, 2008, 3:18am

Its called a “Suite” not a “Sweet” unless your hungry.

fazio93 · October 20, 2008, 4:01am

actually i believe melih said it was over 400,000 unique samples not including variants

Rhaegar · October 20, 2008, 6:38am

Melih post:4:

We detect all the malware we know that exists! (why wouldn’t we )

We have around 400,000 Unique samples (not including variants) and this number is growing very rapidly. (if you include variants this number goes to over a million)

We have a good source of malware samples coming in from many volunteers and we are grateful to every single one of them! Thank you guys!!

We also have relationships in place with many AV vendors and other orgs who have malware samples that we share.

As to how many % of the malware we detect… now I don’t know how anyone can report that as I don’t think anyone will have a full list of all the malware out there. One can only test how many % of the malware they have that we detect. New malware is usually missed by AVs in general, cos the first thing that a decent malware author does is to test their creations against mainstream AVs before they unleash it, making sure they are not detected! That is why we believe “prevention” should be your first line of defense.

Of course our AV infrastructure is new and will take some time to tune it to get it humming along nicely. But one thing for sure, we are on it!

In the meanwhile keep sending the samples pls.

thanks
Melih

 As Melih stated, that's a lot of unique malware samples with a focus on current malware.  Still, the other AV vendors have about a million or more, so hopefully CAV3 will catch up.

Rhaegar

V7chy · October 20, 2008, 6:40am

Don’t buy pro version just make full scan every week with SAS and MBAM. If you haw CIS installed then u haw HIPS protection so u can see if something suspicious is happening.

Peace.
V7chy

alaertsxan · October 20, 2008, 7:20am

I’ll drop in my 2 cents…

DON’T BUY THE FULL VERSION! (now you know it ^_^) A good av as avast should take care of it …

about cis : the AV has over 2.500 unique sigs only found by CAVS !!! No other AV catched it on that moment of test. Now, the database has expanded of the 14 october with around 30.000 sigs and it will keep going in the next weeks.

My advise is : If you want to keep the safest way, stay with Avast for 2-3 months, then go to the full CIS.

Xan

MiguelAngelXP · October 20, 2008, 1:40pm

Hi everyone :

IMHO I think that if you want to be safe, use 3 antispyware programs just in case “never put all your eggs in a single basket”

I think that in some way all the free antispywares are good as the paid ones. Assuming that we use COMODO with D+ enabled why should we have another software with HIPS enabled???

Bottom line : it isn’t worthy to buy a full version of antispyware

Greets
MiguelAngelXP (:KWL)

Kyle142 · October 20, 2008, 1:57pm

That’s over kill man I personally only run Comodo+sometimes Sandboxie, Scan with MBAM once a week… Never find anything. 3 is overkill, Unless you know you have an infection

fazio93 · October 20, 2008, 1:59pm

yea, if you ever do get infected SAS and MBAM are the best places to start.

frogger · October 20, 2008, 6:01pm

OK i won’t buy the full version and will switch in about 2-3 months thanks all for the advise much appreciated

MiguelAngelXP · October 25, 2008, 3:06pm

Hi :

Overkill, why, the 8 antispyware I’ve got are on demand only, I’ve got the best results with Ad-aware, AVG antispyware, SD, Spyware Terminator, and with MBAM I don’t find anything, but I keep it just in case… hehehehe

And by the way yeahh, the fact that is I always got a couple of tracking cookies

Regards
MiguelAngelXP (:KWL)

Kyle142 · October 25, 2008, 3:32pm

You just answered your own question “Why is it over kill?” “I Scan with 8 and never find anything”
The benifits will be very minimal… ofcourse they all detect different things… But whats the percentage of the difference? 1%? 0.001% ? Think most people would agree with me is that having 2 high regarded on demand antispywares is usually (99.99% of the time) secure.

MiguelAngelXP · October 25, 2008, 4:08pm

Sorry I’ve got a semantic issue with my English… I said “…and with MBAM I don’t find anything…”, that’s what I said… (:WIN) I didn’t say “between the 8 I don’t fight anything”

Cheers
MiguelAngelXP (:KWL)

Kyle142 · October 25, 2008, 4:16pm

Oh sorry. My eyes are tired I’ll go to sleep after this post.

Well what ever you feel comfortable with! Though I think you should touch down to 2 or 3 at max

MiguelAngelXP · October 25, 2008, 6:36pm

Don’t worry it’s all right, :P, maybe I should take a nap … :THNK

Regards
MiguelAngelXP (:KWL)