So.. does it really work?...

antalves · July 19, 2008, 9:39pm

It is almost hard to me to believe, but does BOClean really works? Others antispy do not find anything any more!..
It’s like heaven in earth… (S) (V)

Rednose · July 20, 2008, 1:17am

Hi antalves, welcome to the forum

Yes it works Several people who I recommended to use BOClean were saved by it, even though they were using popular anti-virus and anti-spyware solutions. How it works ? For an answer I would like to point you at a post from Kevin :

Kevin McAleavey post:7:

… but best way to explain it is that antiviruses are designed to work at the FILE level … better antiviruses can examine files more deeply, have perhaps an “emulator” or other “heuristics” that may or may not help, but in the end EVERY AV (even ours) does its thing by stopping a file from loading, and then examining it in hopes of matching a signature of some sort TO that file before it is allowed to be loaded/run.

BOClean was always designed on a philosophy of “you already HAVE an antivirus” … if the FILE wasn’t detected as harmful, then BOClean will sit there like a bouncer inside the lobby and whatever gets past the front door is OURS. We do a MEMORY scan of a process which has already loaded and begun to execute. Once it’s actually started up, all of those obfuscations at the file level are no longer in use since a computer can ONLY execute a valid program. And to BE valid, any obfuscations must be completely disarmed by the program to allow it to run. So BOClean goes in at THAT level and gives anything which runs a “second opinion.” And yes, we also check associated files and connections after the fact as well … in case the AV misses it. That was ALWAYS the purpose of BOClean, and why it’s proven so useful for over ten years now.

From this topic :

https://forums.comodo.com/comodo_boclean_antimalware/why_use_boclean-t22796.0.html

If you still have questions, feel free to ask them

Greetz, Red.

system · July 25, 2008, 7:22am

Kevin been with this product since 1980’s…

doktornotor · July 25, 2008, 12:01pm

Yeah, it does really work… (R)

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07/25/2008 13:40:57: CORE-10K MALWARE STOPPED by BOCLEAN!   
Trojan horse was found in memory.
E:\TEMP\<*censored*>\CORE10K.EXE contained the trojan.
Active trojan horse WAS shut down. System now safe.

VirusTotal results…

Rednose · July 25, 2008, 2:33pm

Wow :o Only eSafe detects it :-X

Greetz, Red.

PiCo · July 26, 2008, 10:17am

Give me some info guys before I install 4.27 on this pc. I remember 4.26 had 14mb ram usage and it turned green (!) after 1-2 weeks of usage on my Vista, so had to uninstall.

Is 4.27 worth it?

system · July 26, 2008, 11:11am

Yep 4.27 is worth it because it is ALSO a step forward towards v5!

Cheers,
Josh

Kevin_McAleavey · July 28, 2008, 5:58am

FIXED in 4.27 … it was a bug in a Windows library and we had to work around it … give it another try! Should be happier now.