Extendia AVK Pro

MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
Anybody had any experience with AVK Pro?

I just bought it and removed AVG Pro. I played with the download 30 day trial and it works really well so far.

If you are not familiar with it, it runs both the RAV and the KAV engines at the same time. It generally has a ratio between the two so you don't see a performance hit. It always seems to get 100% detection rating on the lists. The interface is clean and the program can be fully configured to your individual liking. Only complaint I have is when it is doing a complete scan it doesn't show you a percent complete. Just that it is working.


Just thought I'd get some other inputs.

I like it so far :) May change tomorrow

***thread moved to Security General by Dexter***

Comments

  • KobraKobra
    edited September 2004
    eXtendia AVK has a massive definition database, 98,000 for its Kaspersky Engine, and 125,000+ for its RAV engine. Sure many overlap, but many don't, so it provides deep definition based detections..

    It *IS* an exceptionally good Antivirus product.. A review I wrote up about it months ago is here: http://boredmofo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29 should answer many of your questions..

    Also on that same forum, is AVK's support forum, recently opened. Post any other questions you have about it there...
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited September 2004
    Thanks for that info Kobra. As for the support forum, before anyone assumes that Kobra is plugging AVK since he hosts the Official Support Forum for AVK, please read:

    http://boredmofo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30
    I'm not paid to do this, I don't recieve any compensation from eXtendia. But I think its a great product, and as a result, we have the forums you see before you. I'm not biased, I use other products other than AVK, this isn't a fanboy forum where you will be bashed if you point out flaws in AVK.. This ain't Wilders Security, expect fair and balanced treatment here..

    Good luck in that endeavour.

    Dexter...
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Thanks for the info Kobra.

    As far as AVK Pro. It is a powerful AV product. Unfortunately it is also a resource hog. I was always having to turn off the monitoring all the time. This is okay, but not my thing. I have moved the AVK pro to the shop bench to scan customer suspect hard drives and switched this machine to NOD32. It is much faster and almost no resource usage. I still believe in the conplete detection of AVK Pro, but it is overkill for my gaming/surfing machine.
  • KobraKobra
    edited September 2004
    Missileman wrote:
    Thanks for the info Kobra.

    As far as AVK Pro. It is a powerful AV product. Unfortunately it is also a resource hog. I was always having to turn off the monitoring all the time. This is okay, but not my thing. I have moved the AVK pro to the shop bench to scan customer suspect hard drives and switched this machine to NOD32. It is much faster and almost no resource usage. I still believe in the conplete detection of AVK Pro, but it is overkill for my gaming/surfing machine.

    I fully agree with you on AVK being a *Hog*... It is.. Its not well suited for a gaming rig, thats for sure... In fact, I do not recommend you install AVK on anything that does serious gaming or whatever, because you'll find yourself doing exactly what you were doing - turning off the monitor all the time.

    If you still want excessively good detections, but want light system usage, I recommend MKS_Vir.. Very deep heuristics and 92,000+ definitions, and excessively light in terms of system drag.. Great gamers AV... More data on MKS can be found here: http://www.stormbyte.com/

    Keep in mind, I sell no products, I am not in this as a business, i'm already rich enough. :Rocker: Basically I do all of this to try and help people not get screwed by running something like Norton... LOL!
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Thanks Kobra.

    I had already looked at MKS-VIR. It is impressive, but a very rough unfinished product. The english translations are VERY lacking and the interface gives the impression of a beginner product. I went with the Version 2 of NOD32. Good detection rate, updated almost daily, and very fast. Especially on HT machines. I understand the version 1 was lacking, but version 2 is impressive.

    NOD32 detected 584 out of 587 of my viruses in my virus test zip and the 3 it missed were very old DOS only viruses so I'll forgive that :)

    They do claim to be the only 28 time "winner" of the 100% detection award for in the Wild viruses and the VBS list backs them up so they can't be all bad. I just finished my 30 day eval and it proved to be very stable and very light on resources.

    Every AV product has it's strengths and its weaknesses. I just need one to keep a basic eye on my gaming rig.
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