Antidote Free av scanner

[null]

Here's a interesting download:

http://www.vintage-solutions.com/English/Antivirus/Super/

Antidote uses the KAV scan engine. It's a on-demand, no-disinfect
freeware product. The sfx "installs" only to memory, and only the
single .EXE file is required, making the product easily portable.

One disadvantage, compared to "real" KAV is the relative infrequency
of updating. Another, of course, is the inability to disinfect or
clean. Yet, it should be generally useful for "second opinion" scans.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Bill]

Here's a interesting download:

http://www.vintage-solutions.com/English/Antivirus/Super/

Antidote uses the KAV scan engine. It's a on-demand, no-disinfect
freeware product. The sfx "installs" only to memory, and only the
single .EXE file is required, making the product easily portable.

One disadvantage, compared to "real" KAV is the relative infrequency
of updating. Another, of course, is the inability to disinfect or
clean. Yet, it should be generally useful for "second opinion" scans.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

However, with KAV Lite selling for only $20.00 USD a year, it make
somewhat pointless to use anything less.

 

[Bart Bailey]

One disadvantage, compared to "real" KAV is the relative infrequency
of updating.

Just copy the contents of your common files/AVP Shared/bases into the
Antidote folder, then it is updated as often as KAV.

 

[null]

However, with KAV Lite selling for only $20.00 USD a year, it make
somewhat pointless to use anything less.

Somewhat true. Yet, people complain about KAV's realtime monitor
bogging down their PCs, so they look for something faster. Having KAV
available for on-demand scanning should be quite helpful.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[null]

Just copy the contents of your common files/AVP Shared/bases into the
Antidote folder, then it is updated as often as KAV.

Hmm. How did you prove that this works? I would ASSume that the sfx
loads bases from itself and not the folder since it's self contained.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Bill]

Somewhat true. Yet, people complain about KAV's realtime monitor
bogging down their PCs,

So disable it.

 

[null]

Just copy the contents of your common files/AVP Shared/bases into the
Antidote folder, then it is updated as often as KAV.

Here's a one line batch to check up on how often Antidote is updated:

******************************************************************************
wget -N
ftp://ftp.antidote4pc.com/Product/Antidote/031003/Super/English/Antidote.exe

******************************************************************************

Wget with the -N switch will only d/l if the file on the server has
changed in size or date.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[null]

So disable it.

Hey, some people won't even pay $20 for an av and you expect them to
pay an _extra_ $20 for KAV on-demand only?


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Bill]

Hey, some people won't even pay $20 for an av and you expect them to
pay an _extra_ $20 for KAV on-demand only?

Yes.

 

[Bart Bailey]

Hmm. How did you prove that this works? I would ASSume that the sfx
loads bases from itself and not the folder since it's self contained.

I haven't proved it, just noticed that the KAV bases folder [.avc] files
had a similarity to Antidote and as long as the [avp.set] refers to the
latest, it stands to reason that those are defs it uses.
BTW: I extracted the sfx to its own folder first, and ran it from there.

 

[null]

Hmm. How did you prove that this works? I would ASSume that the sfx
loads bases from itself and not the folder since it's self contained.

I haven't proved it, just noticed that the KAV bases folder [.avc] files
had a similarity to Antidote and as long as the [avp.set] refers to the
latest, it stands to reason that those are defs it uses.
BTW: I extracted the sfx to its own folder first, and ran it from there.

I see what you mean now. I hadn't extracted the sfx. You can then run
SuperLite.exe, and you can update the data bases. I checked and the
number of records reported by SuperLite jumped from 75,124 to 77,287
after I updated the bases. That's also what KAVDOS32 reports. I
included the extra bases and of course the avp.set file which includes
them. It does seem that you can do this. However, I've noticed a
discrepancy or two so far when I compare detection to KAVDOS32 on a
malware collection. I'm not yet clear about what's going on. For
example, I have a I-Worm.Swen sample in base 64 form that isn't
detected by SuperLite. Yet it seems to do mail bases ok otherwise, and
the option is there in SuperLite. It also doesn't seem to report
"suspect" files the way KAVDOS32 does.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Jari Lehtonen]

Somewhat true. Yet, people complain about KAV's realtime monitor
bogging down their PCs, so they look for something faster. Having KAV
available for on-demand scanning should be quite helpful.

The newest Kav-versions seems to be fixed. Monitor is really light on
resources. Maybe they have an option to scan packed files without any
size restriction. A 100 mb packed file scanned on-the-fly would
cripple any pc.
Jari