Moonchild 0 Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 I am wondering before I install... does anyone have experience using this with Agnitum Outpost Pro? Also, can this be used in conjunction with my current anti-virus program, that being Panda Cloud? Is there a way to customize the program to not use the anti-virus features, so it can be used in conjunction with another anti-virus program? Any help here is greatly appreciated! PS: This is for use on Windows XP Home....SP3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lynx 34 Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 Hi Moonchild, Welcome to the forum a2-free is on-demand scanner only. It doesn't have real-time resident Guard, so there should not be conflicts with existing AV The only thing to consider is disabling your AV resident during the the scans by a2 when Deep / Smart or Custom scanning where scan set has substantial size (includes many folders). That will substantially decrease the scanning time and avoid potential clashes. ======= As for Outpost Firewall it is reported to be compatible You can have a look at Compatibility threads in our old forum Anti-Malware http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=3626 and Mamutu http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=2760 My regards P.S. As I remember nobody yet reported using Panda Cloud. So, you are the 1st one . It would be appreciated if you will share your experience in this respect Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moonchild 0 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 Hi Lynx, Thank you... I appreciate your input. So basically, it only scans on demand... that is useful, to use as a back up & second opinion to my resident anti-virus program & firewall. About Panda Cloud... it's freeware... I used to use the "regular/original" Panda Antivirus back around 2000-2004, but had to dump it as it started to not play nice with Outpost, and I will not let anything interfere with Outpost... So, I had moved to Avast free home addition. Not bad, but not great... Didn't realize until I uninstalled it last night, how much of a system hog it was, and what a tremendous increase in PC performance I've had since. Not to mention, I question the ability of Avast, as I have had it installed since approximately 2004... have all the resident scans active, etc.., and not one questionable issue has arose from it, since like 2006-2007? I find that hard to believe, as I work on this pc day & night... At any rate... Panda Cloud is Panda Securities latest & greatest... can't get any lighter... or easier to use. Install & forget about it. It has a 99.4% detection success rate, after a million or so something malware/viruses being hurdled at it... pretty impressive! More impressive, as it is not based on 2-4 week old signature files, as most standard antivirus programs are... maybe these articles will help to explain it better, so I don't have to hand type what I read that sold me on giving it a try with Outpost again: PC World PC Mag So far, so good, working seamlessly with Outpost, and is the lightest, easy to install, no config. necessary anti-virus program I've ever used, and the payload is FAR from that of Avast...I think Avast was 150 MB when I uninstalled last night, this is only like 30 MB or something? Have a look... can't hurt to try! So, I'll be installing A Squared Free now... I think I'll like it... probably better than SBS&D??? What are your thoughts on that? SBS&D seems to be a big clunker & hog, just as Avast was... hoping to have better results from A Squared! Have a nice evening Hi Moonchild, Welcome to the forum a2-free is on-demand scanner only. It doesn't have real-time resident Guard, so there should not be conflicts with existing AV The only thing to consider is disabling your AV resident during the the scans by a2 when Deep / Smart or Custom scanning where scan set has substantial size (includes many folders). That will substantially decrease the scanning time and avoid potential clashes. ======= As for Outpost Firewall it is reported to be compatible You can have a look at Compatibility threads in our old forum Anti-Malware http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=3626 and Mamutu http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=2760 My regards P.S. As I remember nobody yet reported using Panda Cloud. So, you are the 1st one . It would be appreciated if you will share your experience in this respect Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lynx 34 Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Good morning Moonchild, Thank you for reply a-squared has the highest detection rate among many AV tested. You can read multiple reviews and results of the tests. Articles are available at EMSI site; sites like Malware Research Group ; etc. As for “cloud discussions” please feel free create OffTopic thread. I think that can be interesting discussion. Just briefly I may say that the technology has many disadvantages... but most importantly – it is still “Antivirus signature based”. It is just unfortunate that we have to use AV (any). The technology as a whole is old. It cannot protect us completely. The additional and more progressive light-weight layer of security one must have nowadays is Behavioural Blocker / Analyser... … which reminded me, as a matter of fact, here is interesting thread “about the cloud” and behaviour http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=5542 My regards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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