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Re: unigray antivirus
by Kees Bakker - 2/27/08 5:20 AM
In reply to: monadonarona by Kees Bakker
I donwloaded their program and installed it (after Norton found it was virus-free). I must say it's amazing.

All it installs:
- the program itself, some 6 Mb
- an uninstall dat and exe
- an icon
- some shortcuts and pifs
- NO virus definitions

Then I ran it. It said:
Virus definition version: 02.73.88 (Februari 15, 2008)
DB version: 4.34/2008
Protecting against 679871 threads
That's fairly impressive for a company that's only on the web for 6 days.

Then (after disabling the real-time protection it offers, which is amazing on its own given the components it installed) I used it to scan my clean (according to Norton) system. It found:
- 240 viruses
- 48 malware
- 43 adware
Most of them were in Microsoft programs (like Visual Studio). And I'm sure they don't contain those viruses and malware. So these are false positives. I preferred not to run the Repair, for obvious reasons.

Then I checked for updated definitions. Couldn't harm, as I had none. So the program contacted their website (or so it said) and reported I already had the latest version (those of Februari 15, remember). Then I went to their (rather unimpressive) website and found out that they added detection for monaronadona on Februari 22.
Which leaves me wondering why so many of our new members report it cleaned it off their systems if it's a version one week older.

I'm uninstalling the program now, and still feel rather safe behind my firewall.

Somehow, I keep thinking this is a scam.

Kees

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