Greatsoft Virusclean v.2.0.3286.3
Receiving offers of new products for the comparative review was an exciting experience – I responded to preliminary enquiries from developers with a mix of hope and worry. Greatsoft's web presence revels in the URL viruschina.com, which was reassuringly clear and slick. The installation process, although in need of a little proof reading, was equally smooth, and the GUI offered several useful tools, including a system for backing up and restoring boot records.
Using the product was a less happy experience, however. My first worry came when I found the 'Select Folders' window of the scanner only had options for the floppy and network drives; this was mitigated by a handy toolbar where folders could be typed in manually for scanning.
With speed tests and on-demand scans completed in this manner, I came to the on-access tests, only to find little information about the on-access scanner. Fearing my discussions with the developers had been less than clear, I thought at first this must be an on-demand only scanner. Eventually, however, I discovered that the on-access component, the 'monitor', was enabled for some routes of ingress to the machine but not locally – options for 'file' and 'big file' monitoring needed to be enabled to make this happen. The system did not seem to be in place by default, and indeed was only active when the scanner GUI was, but also seemed to require a reboot to activate configuration changes.
After several false starts and confusing results however, an accurate set of statistics was obtained, with impressive detection in the zoo sets, but a sample of W32/Eyeveg missed in the ItW test set and a rash of false positives spoiled Greatsoft's chance of a VB 100% award first time out of the blocks.
ItW: 99.85%
ItW (o/a): 99.85%
Macro: 100.00%
Standard: 100.00%
Polymorphic: 100.00% |
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发表于 2007-8-2 00:22:02
